Editor’s response:
Thank you for your letter, Dr McEvoy.
I found your letter interesting and engaging and I am grateful to you for pointing out the inaccuracy in my editorial.
In my (rather weak) defence the Latin word caritas is itself etymologically derived from Ancient Greek. I would like to say that is why I wrote what I wrote in the editorial. However, the reality is, despite over 30 years’ membership of the RCGP, I simply had a somewhat embarrassing “brain freeze”.
A suitable correction to my editorial has now been made.
Yours sincerely,
Simon Gay
Editor-in-Chief, Education for Primary Care
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