title: Alliteration in medicine: a puzzling profusion of p's.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Puzzling, progressive profusion of alliterative "p's" in published papers.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To depict this particular "p" predominance with pinpoint precision. PLAN: Periodic, painstaking perusal of periodicals by a professor of paediatrics.
  
  
  METHODS
  The "p" plethora is positively perplexing and potentially perturbing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Medical Center of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA. gfh@virginia.edu
authors.forename: G F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Hayden
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014825:Vocabulary; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic