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Fillers
Share an experience or lesson with 115000 BMJ readersThe journal's pages are at a premium, as those who have followed the recent discussion about obituaries will know. We therefore try to make the best of every part of each page. There are, however, an average of two or three spaces in each issue that are too small to use for regular contents because they are too near the foot of the page for a new article or section to start. We use them instead for "fillers."
Fillers have long included nuggets from the journal "One hundred years ago" and answers to "Any questions." Finding two years ago that there were more small spaces to fill than these items required and that we wanted more variety, we asked our authors and readers if they would like to help. We suggested pieces of up to 600 words on such topics as
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