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To my wife, Clair.

Thank you for all your love and support – and for making it fun!

JOHN L. ANDERSON

Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK

This edition first published 2022

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

Names: Anderson, John L. (Medical sociologist) author.

Title: Demystifying research for medical & healthcare students : an essential guide / John L. Anderson.

Other titles: Demystifying research for medical and healthcare students

Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021028312 (print) | LCCN 2021028313 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119701378 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119701361 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781119701385 (epub)

Subjects: MESH: Biomedical Research–methods | Research Design | Students, Medical

Classification: LCC R853.C55 (print) | LCC R853.C55 (ebook) | NLM W 20.5 | DDC 610.72/4–dc23

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When I signed the contract for this book in December 2019, I was overjoyed and eager to get started in the New Year. However, 2020 was been a funny sort of year! On the second of January I had a stroke – I couldn't move my right arm or leg! Fortunately, thanks to my wife Clair's quick thinking, I was bundled into the car and driven to Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. Within an hour of my first symptoms, I had been assessed in A&E by the stroke team, had had my CT and MMR scans and been given my first dose of Aspirin. I was kept in, but to my shame, I am afraid that I kept trying to do things on my own, only to be told off by the ward staff and by Clair and my lovely granddaughter Anna. So, I was off work for three months, and to tell the truth, I was glad of the break from work. I had been overdoing it and my stroke was probably the result. And then came ‘Lockdown’! I must say that I enjoyed this period of time, because, as a family, we were suddenly released from the very many sets of demands on our time. Working from home was fine for me – all of what I had to do, including my teaching, could be done online. And I could get on with writing this book!