Fifty years of the column 'Question and Answer'
Bloemenkamp, D.G.; Hart, W.; Overbeke, A.J.
Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 142(30): 1735-1737
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2162 PMID: 9763872 Document Number: 486285
The section 'Question and answer' in the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (Dutch Journal of Medicine) has existed for over 50 years. Medical questions of readers are published anonymously and answered by an anonymous expert consulted by the editorial staff. At first the column grew rather large but in the last few decades it shrank to only few publications a year. Due to improvements in communication (Internet) and provision of information (electronic databases) it appears that the column, as a medium for questions of readers, is becoming obsolete.