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Editor's Choice
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A doctor ponders, a journalist reveals
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This Week in the BMJ
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Multifactorial intervention fails to prevent falls
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/0?etoc
Hip protectors reduce fractures
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/0/a?etoc
Consent is essential in intimate examinations
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/0/b?etoc
Secondary prevention clinics reduce coronary events
and death
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/0/c?etoc
Patients with hyperlipidaemia
respond poorly to aspirin
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/0/d?etoc
Consider stigma due to scars
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/0/e?etoc
Ecstasy deaths are most common in young white men
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Editorials
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Drug treatment of hypertension
Bryan
Williams
BMJ 2003;326 61-62
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/61?etoc
Intimate examinations and other ethical challenges in
medical education
Peter A
Singer
BMJ 2003;326 62-63
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/62?etoc
New edicts for letters to the editor
Sharon
Davies
BMJ 2003;326 63-64
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/63?etoc
Testing new pharmaceutical products in children
Alastair G Sutcliffe
BMJ 2003;326 64-65
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/64?etoc
Racism and health
Kwame McKenzie
BMJ 2003;326 65-66
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/65?etoc
News
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http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/67?etoc
Drug companies defend rewards to doctors for switching
treatments
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/67/a?etoc
In brief
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/68?etoc
Animal rights activist is removed from government
committee
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/68/a?etoc
More doctors is not the answer to the EU Working Time
Directive
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/68/b?etoc
Cigarette possession becomes illegal for Novia Scotia's under 19s
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/69?etoc
Over half of costs related to lung cancer is due to
smoking, says
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/69/a?etoc
Being "tired of life" is not grounds for
euthanasia
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/71/b?etoc
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/72?etoc
News roundup
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Drug linked to child deaths is still available in
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/70?etoc
Pacemaker pinpoints time of death in murder case
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/70/a?etoc
Patients to get a greater say in
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Israeli committee maps out healthcare reforms
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/70/c?etoc
US study shows 10-fold increase in autism over the
past 20 years
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/71?etoc
Women are less likely than men to have rehabilitation
after a heart attack
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/71/a?etoc
News Extra
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Lager may lower risk of heart attack
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Papers
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Multifactorial intervention after a fall in older people with
cognitive
impairment and dementia presenting to the accident and emergency
department: randomised controlled
trial
Fiona E
Shaw, John Bond, David A Richardson, Pamela Dawson, I Nicholas
Steen, Ian
G McKeith, and Rose Anne Kenny
BMJ 2003;326 73
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7380/73?etoc
Effect on hip fractures of increased use of hip
protectors in nursing
homes: cluster randomised
controlled trial
Gabriele
Meyer, Andrea Warnke, R Bender, and I Muhlhauser
BMJ 2003;326 76
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7380/76?etoc
Acknowledgement of "no fault" medical
injury: review of patients' hospital
records in
Peter
Davis, Roy Lay-Yee, Alastair Scott, Robin Briant, and Stephan
Schug
BMJ 2003;326 79-80
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/79?etoc
Review of deaths related to taking ecstasy,
Fabrizio Schifano, Adenekan Oyefeso, Lucy Webb, Mike
Pollard, John
Corkery, and A Hamid
Ghodse
BMJ 2003;326 80-81
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/80?etoc
Recent changes in lung cancer incidence for south
Asians: a population
based register study
Lucy K
Smith, Michael D Peake, and Johannes L Botha
BMJ 2003;326 81-82
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/81?etoc
Research pointers: Platelet responsiveness to aspirin
in patients with
hyperlipidaemia
Maribeth Friend, Ivana Vucenik,
and Michael Miller
BMJ 2003;326 82-83
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/82?etoc
Primary care
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Secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart
disease: four year follow
up of a randomised controlled
trial in primary care
Peter Murchie, Neil C Campbell, Lewis D Ritchie, Julie A Simpson,
and
Joan Thain
BMJ 2003;326 84
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7380/84?etoc
Clinical Review
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Skin scarring
A Bayat, D A McGrouther, and M W J
BMJ 2003;326 88-92
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/88?etoc
ABC of antithrombotic
therapy: Antithrombotic therapy in special
circumstances. II---In children, thrombophilia,
and miscellaneous
conditions
Bernd Jilma, Sridhar Kamath, and
Gregory Y H Lip
BMJ 2003;326 93-96
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Education and Debate
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The ethics of intimate examinations---teaching
tomorrow's doctors *
Commentary: Respecting the patient's integrity is the
key * Commentary:
Teaching pelvic examination---putting the patient first
Yvette Coldicott, Catherine Pope, Clive Roberts, Britt-Ingjerd
Nesheim,
and Jane MacDougall
BMJ 2003;326 97-101
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/97?etoc
Letters
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Preventing obesity
Carol M
Campbell, Kristin Becker, Gema Fruhbeck,
Alberto
Diez-Caballero, Javier Gomez-Ambrosi,
Javier A Cienfuegos, and Javier
BMJ 2003;326 102
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/102?etoc
Patient centred approach may
help in hypertension
Tom Lewis
and Richard Woof
BMJ 2003;326 103
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/103?etoc
The exiled tribe: don't forget overseas members of the
BMA
Stephen Kisely
BMJ 2003;326 103
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/103/a?etoc
Involving patients can work in home blood glucose
testing
David Kerr
BMJ 2003;326 103
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/103/b?etoc
Violence as a public health problem
Jonathan
Shepherd, David C Reardon, Peter Davies, and Graham V Vimpani
BMJ 2003;326 104
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/104?etoc
Vaccine induced protection against hepatitis B
Pierre Van Damme and Jangu E Banatvala
BMJ 2003;326 105
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/105?etoc
Case report showed Muehrcke's
nails, not Beau's lines
Matthias Mohrenschlager, Dietrich Abeck,
and Johannes Ring
BMJ 2003;326 105
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/105/a?etoc
Referees make journal clubs fun
Luis S
Gonzalez, III
BMJ 2003;326 106
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/106?etoc
Cycle of abuse goes on
Derrick
Martin and Anisur Rahman
BMJ 2003;326 106
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/106/a?etoc
Why are miraculous cures mainly of cancer?
Anthony
Campbell
BMJ 2003;326 106
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/106/b?etoc
Obituaries
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Paul Atkins
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/107?etoc
Anthony Harrie William
Babington
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/107/a?etoc
Isobel Porritt Beswick
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/107/b?etoc
John Bingham
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/107/c?etoc
David Robert Bird * Ann Christina Bushell
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/107/d?etoc
Raymond Dudley Blachford
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/107/e?etoc
Heather Elliott
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/107/f?etoc
Harold Gilbert
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/107/g?etoc
John Clifford Ham
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/107/h?etoc
Geoffrey Ian Mair
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/107/i?etoc
Elaine Oenone Stewart (nee Earengey)
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/107/j?etoc
Edgar Leon Udwin
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/107/k?etoc
Reviews
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Book: Pure Madness: How Fear Drives the Mental Health
System
Nigel
Lester
BMJ 2003;326 109
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/109?etoc
Book: Please Don't Break My Other Leg! A Guide to Empathising with Patients
Abi Berger
BMJ 2003;326 109
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/109/a?etoc
TV: Broadcasters block Asian health soap opera
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ 2003;326 110
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/110?etoc
Hit parade
BMJ 2003;326 110
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/110/a?etoc
Personal Views:
Analogies in medicine
James D R
Rose
BMJ 2003;326 111
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/111?etoc
Soundings:
Medical heroes
Kevin Barraclough
BMJ 2003;326 111
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/111/a?etoc
Minerva
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http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/112
Fillers
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POEM: Measurements of ear temperature are not reliable
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/0/h?etoc
What is a good death?
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/65/a?etoc
One hundred years ago: Lord Balfour and vaccination
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/76/a?etoc
Endpiece: A necessity
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/82/a?etoc
Was it something you ate?
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/87?etoc
Using brown snakes to organise
patient-free days
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/92?etoc
A memorable patient: The first of the fortunate
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/101?etoc
Corrections
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Minerva
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/75?etoc
Making progress with competing interests
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/75/a?etoc
Faltering steps towards partnerships
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/75/b?etoc
Career focus
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This week:
Rhona MacDonald
BMJ 2003;326 9
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/S9?etoc
European doctors in the
Christian Herzmann
BMJ 2003;326 9
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/S9a?etoc
Inoculation injuries at work
Sam Flynn
and Anne Rossiter
BMJ 2003;326 12
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/S12?etoc
How to handle being at the receiving end of a
telephone interview
Helen Morant
BMJ 2003;326 13
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/S13?etoc
Profile: Graham Easton
Deborah Cohen
BMJ 2003;326 14
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/S14?etoc
Soap opera: Episode 6: Martha tries her hand at
supervision
Nicola
Sharp
BMJ 2003;326 15
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/S15?etoc
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