Scottish secretary of the BMA resigns

Turning the BMA into print.

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The first BMA Gold Medal.

The BMA in agony.

The BMA suffered agonies last week. And the chairman of its council, Dr Jeremy Lee-Potter, suffered even more. Why the agony and will anything be learnt? Even before the annual representative meeting (the supreme policy making body of the association) had opened in Inverness last week a whispering campaign had begun. It said that Dr Lee-Potter (attending his first such meeting as chairman of co...

The Great Hall of BMA House.

Since last August the Great Hall at BMA has been undergoing reconstruction that will eventually turn the lower part into a new library and the upper part into a suite ofcommittee rooms (see "BMJ" 5 November 1983, p 1367). The scheme has been drawn up by the BMA's architect, Ivan Nellist, who talked to7ane Smith, a "BMJ" staffeditor, about the scheme and its progress. JANE SMITH: What do you thi...

The secretary returns

In the online random-arrival model, an algorithm receives a sequence of n requests that arrive in a random order. The algorithm is expected to make an irrevocable decision with regard to each request based only on the observed history. We consider the following natural extension of this model: each request arrives k times, and the arrival order is a random permutation of the kn arrivals; the al...