Ideas for a new world
The cover of The BMJ ’s Christmas print issue this year (fig 1) shows a respiratory medicine consultant who obtained an MBBS from Barbie Land’s prestigious Handler University and then a doctoral dissertation on the causes of lung cancer in young adults. Dr Barbie is now a professor at Handler and a hospital specialist with a passion for smoking cessation and caring for patients, including those with combined chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer. Dr Barbie is also black and has vitiligo. Fig 1 Cover from the 2023 Christmas issue of The BMJ But you won’t find this Barbie...