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26 July 2003 (Volume 327, Issue 7408)
 
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 Editor's choice
This week in the BMJ
Editorials
News
News roundup
News extra
Papers
Primary care
Education and debate
Letters
Obituaries
reviews
Minerva
Fillers
Career focus
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Editor's choice

 

Death, come closer
Richard Smith [Full text] [PDF]  

 

This week in the BMJ

 

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

 

Doctors overestimate survival [Full text]
Caring for dying patients is a source of satisfaction and of distress [Full text]
Bereaved people cope better after euthanasia than natural death [Full text]
Patients in Uganda prefer to die at home [Full text]
Facilitating consent for trials in dying patients [Full text]

Editorials

 

  "The best places to die"
Peter A Singer and Michael Wolfson
BMJ 2003; 327: 173-174. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Patient centred death
Jocalyn Clark
BMJ 2003; 327: 174-175. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Reforming the coroner's service
Christopher M Milroy and Helen L Whitwell
BMJ 2003; 327: 175-176. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Palliative care needs of minorities
A Rashid Gatrad, Erica Brown, Hardev Notta, and Aziz Sheikh
BMJ 2003; 327: 176-177. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Helping people bereaved by suicide
Keith Hawton and Sue Simkin
BMJ 2003; 327: 177-178. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

News

 

NHS staff cheat to hit government targets, MPs say [Full text] [PDF]  
NICE issues new guidelines for patients with heart failure [Full text] [PDF]  
In brief [Full text] [PDF]  
Hospital patients say they are not fully informed about drugs [Full text] [PDF]  
Freedom from unpleasant symptoms is essential for a good death [Full text] [PDF]  
Diets high in animal fats increase risk of breast cancer, while painkillers lower risk, studies say [Full text] [PDF]  
Unjustified seclusion of psychiatric patients is breach of human rights [Full text] [PDF]  
Star rating system fails to reduce variation [Full text] [PDF]  

News roundup

 

Attacks on NHS staff increasing, MPs say [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
EU commits $1bn to global fund [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Tattooists use pigments designed as car paint [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Consultants are closer to pay deal after winning concessions [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
EU to ban use of unsubstantiated health claims for food products [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
MRC to fund more trials of complex treatments [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Doctor who botched sterilisation has to pay cost of raising child [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Genetic test can show whether drugs to treat colon cancer will work [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  

News extra

 

Free retroviral drugs could save up to 1.7 million South Africans [Full text]  
Community pharmacies saved from deregulation plans [Full text]  
Surgeons accepting incentives from prosthesis makers must register their interests [Full text]  
Emergency service under threat from working time directive [Full text]  
Food emergency looms in war torn Sudan [Full text]  
More than half of male medical students don't practise safe sex on holiday [Full text]  

 

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Papers

 

Doctors' emotional reactions to recent death of a patient: cross sectional study of hospital doctors
Ellen M Redinbaugh, Amy M Sullivan, Susan D Block, Nina M Gadmer, Matthew Lakoma, Ann M Mitchell, Deborah Seltzer, Jennifer Wolford, and Robert M Arnold
BMJ 2003; 327: 185. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
Effects of euthanasia on the bereaved family and friends: a cross sectional study
Nikkie B Swarte, Marije L van der Lee, Johanna G van der Bom, Jan van den Bout, and A Peter M Heintz
BMJ 2003; 327: 189. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
A good death in Uganda: survey of needs for palliative care for terminally ill people in urban areas
Ekiria Kikule
BMJ 2003; 327: 192-194. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
A systematic review of physicians' survival predictions in terminally ill cancer patients
Paul Glare, Kiran Virik, Mark Jones, Malcolm Hudson, Steffen Eychmuller, John Simes, and Nicholas Christakis
BMJ 2003; 327: 195. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
Novel consent process for research in dying patients unable to give consent
Elizabeth Rees and Janet Hardy
BMJ 2003; 327: 198. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Patient information sheet]  
 

Primary care

 

  Twenty five years of requests for euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in Dutch general practice: trend analysis
R L Marquet, A Bartelds, G J Visser, P Spreeuwenberg, and L Peters
BMJ 2003; 327: 201-202. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  National survey of medical decisions at end of life made by New Zealand general practitioners
Kay Mitchell and R Glynn Owens
BMJ 2003; 327: 202-203. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

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Education and debate

 

  Planning for a good death: responding to unexpected events
Y Saunders, J R Ross, and J Riley
BMJ 2003; 327: 204-206. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Commentary: mother's response
Lynn Boland and Diane Laverty
BMJ 2003; 327: 206-207. [Full text]  
 
  A healthy view of dying
Julia Neuberger
BMJ 2003; 327: 207-208. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Quality care at the end of life in Africa
Cecilia Sepulveda, Vincent Habiyambere, Jacinto Amandua, Margaret Borok, Ekie Kikule, Barbara Mudanga, Twalib Ngoma, and Bogale Solomon
BMJ 2003; 327: 209-213. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Patients' voices are needed in debates on euthanasia
Yvonne Y W Mak, Glyn Elwyn, and Ilora G Finlay
BMJ 2003; 327: 213-215. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Dead body with mourners: medical reflections on the entombment of Christ
Johan P Mackenbach
BMJ 2003; 327: 215-218. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Historical and cultural variants on the good death
Tony Walter
BMJ 2003; 327: 218-220. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Letters

 

  This week's letters [PDF]
 
  In search of a good death: Doctors need to know when and how to say die
Stephen R Workman
BMJ 2003; 327: 221. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Humanising effects of a good death will help society
Aileen Clarke and Jean Gladwin
BMJ 2003; 327: 221. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Medical education has important role in extending palliative care
Mari Lloyd-Williams and Yvonne H Carter
BMJ 2003; 327: 221-222. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: A good death is an oxymoron without consideration of mental health
Holly G Prigerson, Selby C Jacobs, Elizabeth H Bradley, and Stanislav V Kasl
BMJ 2003; 327: 222. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Health professionals' beliefs may undermine effective pain relief for dying patients
Marina Cuttini, Veronica Casotto, Rodolfo Saracci, and Marcello Orzalesi
BMJ 2003; 327: 222. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Can children with life threatening illness and their families experience a good death?
Laura Beaune and Christine Newman
BMJ 2003; 327: 222-223. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Palliative care is also remit of intensivists
Asrar Rashid and Margaret Ferguson
BMJ 2003; 327: 223. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Primary healthcare teams work in new framework for better care of the dying at home
Keri Thomas
BMJ 2003; 327: 223. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Good death is social construction
Mary J Curtis
BMJ 2003; 327: 223-224. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: What is a good death?
June Jones and Derek Willis
BMJ 2003; 327: 224. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Each encounter with a dying patient is a unique privilege
Simon Knowles
BMJ 2003; 327: 224. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Spiritual care is important for a good death
Barry A Clark
BMJ 2003; 327: 224. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Spiritual care of dying patients needs to be well prepared
George El-Nimr, Laura Green, and Emad Salib
BMJ 2003; 327: 224. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: A good death and medicalisation need not be polarised
Jen L Lapum
BMJ 2003; 327: 224-225. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Good death is achievable if task becomes easing death, not prolonging life
Grant R Gillett
BMJ 2003; 327: 225. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Human Rights Act 1998 imposes an obligation to facilitate a good death
Jo Samanta and Ash Samanta
BMJ 2003; 327: 225. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Law needs to be changed to allow terminally ill people choice of a dignified death
Lisa Cook
BMJ 2003; 327: 225-226. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Do we really know what happens in this country?
Ramanand M Kalbag
BMJ 2003; 327: 226. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: Both how and when determines a good death
Anand Deshpande
BMJ 2003; 327: 226. [Full text]  
 
  In search of a good death: A good death described
Frankie E Campling
BMJ 2003; 327: 226. [Full text]  
 
  Adrenaline and non-life threatening allergic reactions: Intramuscular adrenaline is safe
Jo A Douglass and Robyn E O'Hehir
BMJ 2003; 327: 226-227. [Full text]  
 
  Adrenaline and non-life threatening allergic reactions: Cause of reactions should be identified
Daniela Zauli
BMJ 2003; 327: 227. [Full text]  
 
  Adrenaline and non-life threatening allergic reactions: Authors' reply
Sarah L Johnston, Joe Unsworth, and Mark M Gompels
BMJ 2003; 327: 227. [Full text]  
 
  BMA secretary responds to news story
Jeremy Strachan
BMJ 2003; 327: 227. [Full text]  
 

Obituaries

 

This week's obituaries [PDF]

 

Sir Donald Harrison [Full text]  
Stanley Dillon [Full text]  
Eric Ronald Down [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Alec Laylee [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
James Fleming McHarg [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Charles Douglas Needham [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Suli ("Pat") Patel [Full text]  
Ernest Herman Rainer [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
An apology:Obituary of David Horrobin [Full text]  

reviews

 

Multimedia

 

Book: The Hour of Our Death
David Healy [Full text] [PDF]  

 

Book: And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Tamara Rader [Full text]  

 

Web: Death becomes us
Jocalyn Clark [Full text]  

 

Press: It's never been a better time to die
Tim Bullamore [Full text]  

 

A death photographed: one patient's story
Simon O'Connor, Paul Schatzberger, and Sheila Payne [Full text] [extra: More photographs]  

 

Book: Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care
Ignasi Agell [Full text]  

 

The Art of Dying
Upasana Tayal [Full text]  

 

Personal views

The good of small things
Mary J Marret [Full text]  

 

Freedom from pain goes a long way to a "good death"
Julia Riley [Full text]  

 

A perfect death?
Jane Morris [Full text]  

 

Freddie
Simon Stephenson [Full text]  

 

I dread not death but dying
Brian Allt [Full text]  

 

Soundings

Environmentally friendly disposal of the dead
Imre Loefler [Full text]  

 

Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]

Fillers

 

POEM*: Continuous use of combined contraceptive pill minimises vaginal bleeding [Full text] [PDF]  
Endpiece: Inside our dreams [Full text] [PDF]  
Fear of imminent death [Full text] [PDF]  
A good death? [Full text] [PDF]  
Death as part of a person's history [Full text] [PDF]  
Death as the dramatic climax to a staged life [Full text] [PDF]  

Career focus

 

  This week's Career focus section [PDF]
THIS WEEK
Rhona MacDonald [Full text]  

 

So you want to be a paediatric surgeon?
Evelyn Ong [Full text] [extra: Further details about surgical training]  

 

How to become a publisher: part 3
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli [Full text]  

 

Tips on...: Telephone skills
Mark Griffiths [Full text]  

 

Nearly 1000 doctors out of work
Graham Easton [Full text]  

 

PROFILE: Caring for Uganda
Rebecca Goody [Full text]  

 

Tips on...: Improving your listening skills
Stephen Manallack [Full text]  

 

PROFILE: Building hope
Gavin Yamey [Full text]  

 

SOAP OPERA: Episode 34: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Nicola Sharp [Full text]  

 

 

 

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