Alliteration in medicine: a puzzling profusion of p's.
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.
Hayden
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Department of Pediatrics, Children's Medical Center of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA. gfh@virginia.edu
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