Kamran Abbasi is a British Pakistani doctor, medical

Medicine

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 editor, and cricket writer. He is currently editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Formerly, Dr. Abbasi was the acting editor of the British Medical Journal

British Medical Journal

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 and editor of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization

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In addition, he is a cricket

Cricket

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 writer and blogger for wisden

Wisden

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 website Cricinfo.com with a particular expertise in Pakistan

Pakistan

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i cricket and the politics of cricket.
His cricket blog is one the best read in world sports, and each entry receives hundreds of comments debating the complexities and mysteries of Pakistani cricket. He also writes for Dawn

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, Pakistan's leading English-language newspaper.

Dr. Abbasi is a past chief executive and editor-in-chief of OnMedica http://www.onmedica.com. He has also worked as medical director of the UK

United Kingdom

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-based independent health information company Dr Foster

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In October 2004, when Dr. Abbasi was acting editor, the BMJ published a personal view in which author Derek Summerfield expressed his concern at what he saw as systematic violations of the fourth Geneva Convention by the Israeli army in Gaza. In addition to responses sent to the website, almost 1000 emails were sent directly to Dr. Abbasi. An analysis of all these emails provides a less benign view of what editors face when entering this thorny debate.

Biography

Kamran Abbasi qualified in medicine from Leeds University in 1992. He trained in internal medicine in Yorkshire

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 and London

London

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 before joining the British Medical Journal

British Medical Journal

BMJ is a partially open-access peer-reviewed medical journal. Originally called the British Medical Journal, the title was officially shortened to BMJ in 1988. The journal is published by the BMJ Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association...

. In addition, he is a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 writer and blogger for wisden

Wisden

The Wisden Group was a group of companies formed by John Wisden & Co Ltd, publishers of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. As well as John Wisden & Co, the group included the The Wisden Cricketer magazine, Cricinfo – the world's highest traffic cricket website – and the Hawk-Eye computerised...

 website Cricinfo.com with a particular expertise in Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i cricket and the politics of cricket.