From Ms C. Stillman-Lowe
SIR,—I am not in the habit of writing fan letters, but after months of provocation, I must finally succumb to temptation. The final straw was the charmingly rustic drop hole toilet featured in your October 9 edition (p571).
As well as bringing back happy memories of a three month trip to India during which I managed the astonishing feat of suffering chronic constipation (too much white rice I think), it brought home to me that the PJ is a marvellously eclectic beast.
No other professional journal to my knowledge conducts furious battles over the attire of its members (the great white coat debate), or indulges quite so enthusiastically in internecine warfare (are locums a liability; are hospital pharmacists painfully slow), while simultaneously plugging away at the staples of research and professional updating. Dull the PJ is not. By all means, take it on-line for the benefit of webmasters and mistresses, but please stay in print too so that world weary National Health Service managers like myself can snuggle down to a rip-roaring good read once a week on the 17.21 to Twyford.
Catherine Stillman-Lowe
Twyford, Reading