dc.contributor.author | de Wet, Carl | |
dc.contributor.author | Bowie, Paul | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-17T03:51:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-17T03:51:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0960-1643 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3399/bjgp14X677716 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/134150 | |
dc.description.abstract | On 30 June 1859 Charles Blondin successfully crossed the 340 metre span of the Niagara gorge on a tightrope suspended 50 metres above the rushing water. As if this wasn’t enough, he repeated the feat several times over the next few months with some added twists: he crossed on stilts, he crossed blindfolded, he carried a stove across and made an omelette on it, and then he pushed a wheelbarrow across. On reaching the other side he apparently asked the rapturous crowd whether they believed he could push a man across in the wheelbarrow. Their affirmative cheers drowned out the roaring river, but when he asked for a volunteer they fell silent ... | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Royal College of General Practitioners | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 164 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 165 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 621 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | British Journal of General Practice | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 64 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Public Health and Health Services | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 119999 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 1117 | |
dc.title | Patient safety and general practice: traversing the tightrope | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C2 - Articles (Other) | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dc.description.version | Version of Record (VoR) | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2014 Royal College of General Practitioners. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | de Wet, Carl | |