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QJM Advance Access published online on May 21, 2009
QJM, doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcp055
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When I Use a word ... Changing your practice

Jeff Aronson

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    Be not the first by whom the New are try’d,

        Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside.

      Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

    How many Oxford dons does it take to change a light bulb? Change?!?

The word ‘change’ comes from the Latin word cambire, to barter, but change is not always a good bargain. Many sayings deplore it. ‘Plus ça change plus ç’est la même chose’, said Alphonse Karr, talking about revolutions. And Ogden Nash thought that progress may have been all right once but that it had gone on too long.

On the other hand, bad practices abound and need to be changed, and even good practices become outdated as new . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Can a single paper change your practice?

Is it desirable for a single paper to change your practice?

Can editors and referees recognize papers that have the potential to change your practice?

Conclusions


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