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Dr Benoy Shah There are many reasons why doctors choose to publish in the medical literature. At its origin, publishing was designed to help disseminate new medical findings and knowledge around the world, to stimulate progress in medicine and update the global medical community on novel therapies or breakthroughs in disease understanding. Over time, however, publishing papers came to be viewed by some as a marker of dedication to a field among trainees, to the extent that, 30–40 years ago, it was nigh on impossible to enter specialist training in cardiology without multiple publications and a higher research degree (e.g. MD or PhD). Hence,