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  • A case in point, is that suicide and attempted suicide rates have been high in Sri Lanka over the past few years (World Health Organization, 2001), and the media reports of the events have, most of the time, been a gross misrepresentation of the facts and have sacrificed truth at the altar of sensationalism

  • I was intrigued to read the article by Herzberg and colleagues about preregistration posts in psychiatry (Psychiatric Bulletin, 27, 192-194)

  • It was I who established the Sheffield rotations in 1981, as described by Jane O’Dwyer. It was a fortunate time because there were extra house officers requiring posts, so two pairs of far-sighted physicians and surgeons who had extra posts agreed to include the second one into the experimental scheme of four monthly rotations in medicine, surgery and psychiatry at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield

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We have read with interest Mark Salter’s article on ‘Psychiatry and the media: from pitfalls to possibilities’ (Psychiatric Bulletin, April 2003, 27, 123-125). A case in point, is that suicide and attempted suicide rates have been high in Sri Lanka over the past few years (World Health Organization, 2001), and the media reports of the events have, most of the time, been a gross misrepresentation of the facts and have sacrificed truth at the altar of sensationalism. Kuruppuarachchi Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, P.O. Box 6,Thalagolla Road, Ragama, Sri Lanka, S.

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