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How has research in the past 5 years changed my practice?
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Dr M Blair
Imperial College, Northwick Park Hospital Campus, Watford Road, Middlesex Harrow HA1 3UJ, UK; m.blair@imperial.ac.uk
Accepted 30 September 2006
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The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before
Thorsten Veblen, US sociologist (1857–1929).
My starting point for this article is defining my "practice". Over the past 5 years, I would describe myself as an academic general paediatrician with specialist expertise in child public health. My job divides up roughly into one third each of clinical practice (outpatient work, child public health practice and acute on call), teaching and research. I started off as a senior lecturer in community paediatrics in Nottingham and changed direction but not philosophy in 1998, when I moved back to London to take up a senior lecturer’s post at Imperial College with my clinical base at the Northwick Park Hospital campus in North London—a large teaching district general hospital with integrated acute and community services.
What is my philosophy? To use my skills to manage
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