RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Ruminations of a geriatric Emeritus Regius Professor of Medicine
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 104
OP 107
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.9-2-104
VO 9
IS 2
A1 David Weatherall
YR 2009
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/2/104.abstract
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.