TY - JOUR T1 - Atoms JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 499 LP - 499 VL - 89 IS - 6 AU - Howard Bauchner Y1 - 2004/06/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/89/6/499.2.abstract N2 - We welcome a new addition to the ADC family this month—Education and Practice—a supplement that will help clinicians practise high quality medicine in an increasingly complicated world. The supplement will focus on continuing professional development and will appear 4–6 times each year. We are aware that clinicians do not lack for information—the proliferation of textbooks, journals, newsletters, abstracting publications, and information available over the Internet or specifically for hand-held devices has only made our lives busier. We hope that clinicians will look to Education and Practice to help them keep up with changes in medicine. See http://ep.bmjjournals.com/current.shtml I recall the first time I had blood drawn from a finger prick and was reassured that the test would not hurt. I did not care for the procedure; actually the bloodletting was more painful than venipuncture. In a very simple, but important study from Greenhalgh and colleagues, 46 children with diabetes were asked to compare blood glucose testing from the forearm with finger prick sampling. Sixty-one percent felt that forearm … ER -