PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - David Weatherall
TI  - Ruminations of a geriatric Emeritus Regius Professor of Medicine
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.9-2-104
DP  - 2009 Apr 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 104--107
VI  - 9
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/2/104.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/2/104.full
SO  - Clin Med2009 Apr 01; 9
AB  - The potential for the holder of a senior academic post to influence the medical world is usually enshrined in their job description. Even though Oxford University failed to provide one, this account of 25 years of undirected activity suggests that such posts can influence events, albeit to a limited extent and not always in the expected direction.