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The future of medical publishing is uncertain. In Dublin this year I was delighted to take part in a stage debate with some amazing luminaries from around the world on where we are now and where we might be going in the future.

Hot on the heels of our recent journal club article 'cut or push'1 on the management of traumatic cardiac arrest 2 comes this paper from our friends and colleagues in the UK. My conflict of interest is that I know and hugely respect most of the authors on this paper.

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This is just a quickie to support some local teaching in Virchester on 'chest drain' insertion, or 'intercostal drains' if you prefer additional consonants or 'chest tubes' if you are from the land of the Trump. Anyway chest drains are one of those procedures that are rare enough that we need to think about, but common enough that we really should be expert in.

I work part time for the General Medical Council as an education associate and it's a really interesting job. I know that the GMC has had a lot of criticism from the the profession over recent political issues and also in it's role as the regulator of doctors, but it has many other roles as well.