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14 June 2003 (Volume 326, Issue 7402)
 
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Other Issues:
 From the editor
Comment
News
News roundup
News extra
Interview
Good patient
Developing world
Ageing
Head to head
Learning from patients
Research
Dealing with pain
Doctors' diagnosis
Letters
Perspectives
Reviews
The last laugh
Career focus
Press releases
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From the editor

 

Preparing for partnership
Richard Smith [Full text] [PDF]  

 

Comment

 

  Saddle up, partner
Lynn Eaton
BMJ 2003; 326: 1275. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Patients are experts in their own field
Ian Kennedy
BMJ 2003; 326: 1276-1277. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Just how demanding can we get before we blow it?
Hilda Bastian
BMJ 2003; 326: 1277-1278. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Boosting performance measure for measure
Daniel Stryer and Carolyn Clancy
BMJ 2003; 326: 1278-1279. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Expert patients usher in a new era of opportunity for the NHS
Liam Donaldson
BMJ 2003; 326: 1279-1280. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Killing the goose that laid the golden egg?
Angela Coulter
BMJ 2003; 326: 1280-1281. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

News

 

England is in a sexual health crisis, MPs say [Full text] [PDF]  
Patients will be reminded of appointments by text messages [Full text] [PDF]  
Arsenal helps publicise testicular cancer website [Full text] [PDF]  
IN BRIEF [Full text] [PDF]  
Paroxetine must not be given to patients under 18 [Full text] [PDF]  
Labour wants to make patients honour their duty to NHS [Full text] [PDF]  
Tories propose a "patient's passport" for use in NHS or private sector [Full text] [PDF]  
Experts issue guidelines for treating childhood brain injury [Full text] [PDF]  
WHO investigates China's fall in SARS cases [Full text] [PDF]  
NHS hampers patient empowerment, says professor [Full text] [PDF]  
Drug companies want to inform patients [Full text] [PDF]  
Doctors must listen more [Full text] [PDF]  

News roundup

 

India’s burden of waterborne diseases is underestimated [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Coroners will deliver fuller verdicts after inquests [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
EU health ministers reject proposal for limited direct to consumer advertising [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
New Zealand GPs call for end to direct to consumer advertising [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Survival after partial lung transplants is as good as after full lung transplants [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Teenagers need special health services they can get outside school hours [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
GPs prescribe self help books for mental health problems [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  

News extra

 

Leeds students are angry at lack of information about final results delay [Full text]  
Working the "graveyard" shift increases risk of colorectal cancer [Full text]  
EU could help make patients better informed [Full text]  
India admits to unapproved drug formulations in market [Full text]  
Haemophilia patients launch action against Bayer over contaminated blood products [Full text]  
Wife wins case against GPs who did not disclose husband’s HIV status [Full text]  

 

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Interview

 

  Man and superman
Lynn Eaton
BMJ 2003; 326: 1287-1290. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Good patient

 

  Brandy, bridge, and other patient dilemmas
Melissa Sweet
BMJ 2003; 326: 1291-1292. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Make the most of your doctor
Pamela Prentice
BMJ 2003; 326: 1292. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  I am a good patient, believe it or not
Alejandro R Jadad, Carlos A Rizo, and Murray W Enkin
BMJ 2003; 326: 1293-1295. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  What patients want from their doctors
Mike Stone
BMJ 2003; 326: 1294. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Developing world

 

  Seen and not heard
Sanjay Kumar
BMJ 2003; 326: 1295. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Public health and company wealth
Nathan Ford
BMJ 2003; 326: 1296. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Ageing

 

  The most pressing problem of our age
Thomas B L Kirkwood
BMJ 2003; 326: 1297-1299. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Time to deliver with dignity
Stan Davison and Ian Philp
BMJ 2003; 326: 1300. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Letter from America
William D Novelli
BMJ 2003; 326: 1301. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Head to head

 

  Should drug companies be allowed to talk directly to patients?: YES
Trevor Jones
BMJ 2003; 326: 1302. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Should drug companies be allowed to talk directly to patients?: NO
Wendy Garlick
BMJ 2003; 326: 1302-1303. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Learning from patients

 

  Cultural revolution
Patrick Pietroni, Fedelma Winkler, and Lindsey Graham
BMJ 2003; 326: 1304-1306. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Research

 

  Do patients need to read research?
Richard Smith
BMJ 2003; 326: 1307. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
Effects of educational interventions for self management of asthma in children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis
James P Guevara, Fredric M Wolf, Cyril M Grum, and Noreen M Clark
BMJ 2003; 326: 1308-1309. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Details of trials and references] [extra: PDF of article in paper journal]  
 
Qualitative study of the meaning of personal care in general practice
Carolyn Tarrant, Kate Windridge, Mary Boulton, Richard Baker, and George Freeman
BMJ 2003; 326: 1310. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: PDF of article in paper journal]  
 
  Patient's response to the research
Janey Antoniou
BMJ 2003; 326: 1313. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Patient's response to the research
David Wilkins
BMJ 2003; 326: 1313. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Patients' views about taking antihypertensive drugs: questionnaire study
John Benson and Nicky Britten
BMJ 2003; 326: 1314-1315. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
Patients' accounts of being removed from their general practitioner's list: qualitative study
Tim Stokes, Mary Dixon-Woods, Kate C Windridge, and Robert K McKinley
BMJ 2003; 326: 1316. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: PDF of article in paper journal]  
 
  Patient's response to the research
Rafat Saeed
BMJ 2003; 326: 1319. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Patient's response to the research
Brenda L Constable
BMJ 2003; 326: 1319. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Dealing with pain

 

  Managing pain
Eileen Mann
BMJ 2003; 326: 1320-1321. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Integrative approaches to pain management: how to get the best of both worlds
Brian M Berman
BMJ 2003; 326: 1320-1321. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Time for a fresh look at complementary medicine
Edward Baldwin
BMJ 2003; 326: 1322. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Doctors' diagnosis

 

  Multiple sclerosis
Harriet Gaze
BMJ 2003; 326: 1323-1324. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Depression
Helen Crane
BMJ 2003; 326: 1324. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Diabetes
Paul Smith
BMJ 2003; 326: 1325. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Letters

 

 
  Please don't touch me there: the ethics of intimate examinations: Informed consent failed to protect me
Mary Selby
BMJ 2003; 326: 1326. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Please don't touch me there: the ethics of intimate examinations: Consent is crucial—but don't go too far, for students' and patients' sakes
Aneel A Bhangu
BMJ 2003; 326: 1326. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Please don't touch me there: the ethics of intimate examinations: What examination is not intimate?
Nikhil C Kaushik
BMJ 2003; 326: 1326. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Please don't touch me there: the ethics of intimate examinations: How medical students are being taught at University of Antwerp
Kristin Hendrickx, Benedicte De Winter, and Jean-Jacques Wyndaele
BMJ 2003; 326: 1327. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Please don't touch me there: the ethics of intimate examinations: Integrated approach to teaching and learning clinical skills
Debra Nestel and Roger Kneebone
BMJ 2003; 326: 1327. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Please don't touch me there: the ethics of intimate examinations: Summary of rapid responses
Alison Tonks
BMJ 2003; 326: 1327. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Shocked by attitude to MRSA
Winifred Beaumont
BMJ 2003; 326: 1328. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Patients' charities often lack cash
Fiona McLean
BMJ 2003; 326: 1328. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Involving patients in a primary care research meeting worked well
William R Phillips and Garry D Grams
BMJ 2003; 326: 1329. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  ATAC trial: reporting interim results is not helpful
Heather Goodare, Clare Dimmer, and Kathy Page
BMJ 2003; 326: 1329. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Perspectives

 

  'Copying letters to patients is coming to a clinic near you'
Charles Essex
BMJ 2003; 326: 1330-1331. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  'Having a diagnosis is a qualification for the job'
Diana Rose
BMJ 2003; 326: 1331. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  'The focus is on patients' clinical needs and distress'
Malcolm Alexander
BMJ 2003; 326: 1332-1333. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  'We must accept that health care is a risky business'
Peter Walsh
BMJ 2003; 326: 1333-1334. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Doctors' notes
BMJ 2003; 326: 1333. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  'You matter to the last moment of your life'
Irene Brignall
BMJ 2003; 326: 1335. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  'This added to my multiple myopia'
Les Irwig
BMJ 2003; 326: 1336. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  'Both sides need to keep the relationship going'
Raj Persaud
BMJ 2003; 326: 1337. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Reviews

 

  Medicine without doctors
Adrian Gonzalez
BMJ 2003; 326: 1338. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  The Autonomous Patient: Ending Paternalism in Medicine; The Resourceful Patient
Mary Baker
BMJ 2003; 326: 1338-1339. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Health literacy and patients' understanding
Alex Vass
BMJ 2003; 326: 1339. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Supplementary benefits?
Anne Gulland
BMJ 2003; 326: 1339. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

The last laugh

 

  The whole truth?
Phil Hammond
BMJ 2003; 326: 1340. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Career focus

 

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

 

The lowdown on international recruitment
Rhona MacDonald [Full text] [extra: Further questions]  

 

Getting serious about SAS doctors
Peter Royle [Full text]  

 

Tips on...: Making an emergency referral to a subspecialty
Faiyaz Mohammed [Full text]  

 

PROFILE: Taking the tough route
Anja Weidmann [Full text]  

 

Tips on...: Your career after PLAB
Rhona MacDonald [Full text]  

 

SOAP OPERA: Episode 28: A taste of your own medicine
Nicola Sharp [Full text]  

 

 

 

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