BMJ Christmas Edition

December 16, 2015 8:12 AM

Every year the British Medical Journal publishes a special Christmas edition.

• Black medicine: an observational study of doctors’ coffee purchasing patterns at work
• “Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing
• Death of a proverb
• Zombie infections: epidemiology, treatment, and prevention
• Do heads of government age more quickly? Observational study comparing mortality between elected leaders and runners-up in national elections of 17 countries
• Certificate in Reverse Psychology probably not worth it
• Conflict of Interest Bingo
• Debunking the curse of the rainbow jersey: historical cohort study
• Freewheelin’ scientists: citing Bob Dylan in the biomedical literature
• Rejection of rejection: a novel approach to overcoming barriers to publication
• Hominid spongyform encephalophagy: cooking time 1-1½ hours
• Parliamentary privilege—mortality in members of the Houses of Parliament compared with the UK general population: retrospective cohort analysis, 1945-2011
• British GPs keep going for longer: is the 12 second interruption history?
• Are you pharmiscuous?

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posted by alby (6 comments total)

That brain cake is freaking me the hell out
posted by dismas at 9:22 AM on December 16, 2015

I trolled my pub quiz audience getting them to guess the punch line to Death of a Proverb on Monday.

Worth it.
posted by Space Coyote at 9:39 AM on December 16, 2015

from the coffee article:

Anaesthetists purchased the least coffee...

I guess they have access to other things to wake themselves up, amirite?
posted by randomkeystrike at 9:48 AM on December 16, 2015 [2 favorites]

Is the brain cake a signature challenge or a show stopper?
posted by maryr at 10:01 AM on December 16, 2015 [1 favorite]

That's a very odd recipe for Victoria sponge - you shouldn't need to add milk, and certainly not baking powder if you're also using self-raising flour.
posted by Vortisaur at 10:56 AM on December 16, 2015

British teeth not worse than American shock.
posted by Segundus at 9:32 PM on December 16, 2015 [1 favorite]