Play “5’s” (from the eBMJ):

“Shall I compare thee to a…..” Imre Loefler sent us his comparison of the “big five” general medical journals with the big five game animals of Africa. Then he compared them

with ships. Read “The Big Five”. Read “Five Ships” . Clearly, the possibilities of this are endless, and we thought that more people might like to join in the game…Remember the

field from which you choose your five examples is wide open:composers, political regimes, trees, psychiatric states, intestinal parasites, cartoon characters, odours…. For the record, the five general medical journals are: Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, JAMA, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine.