28 September 2002 (Vol 325, Issue 7366)

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Editor's Choice

The BMJ ‘s wild goose chase

BMJ 2002;325:0.10 (Published 28 September 2002)

News

Review warns that risks of long term HRT outweigh benefits

BMJ 2002;325:673.1 (Published 28 September 2002)

Doctor accused of “interfering” in girl's treatment is cleared by GMC

BMJ 2002;325:673.2 (Published 28 September 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;325:674.1 (Published 28 September 2002)

Afghan health workers should be allowed home to treat people

BMJ 2002;325:674.2 (Published 28 September 2002)

Gynaecologists cleared of wrongdoing after death of patient

BMJ 2002;325:674.3 (Published 28 September 2002)

World Medical Association isolates Netherlands on euthanasia

BMJ 2002;325:675.1 (Published 28 September 2002)

Exhibition looks at autism

BMJ 2002;325:675.2 (Published 28 September 2002)

Breast feeding does not protect against atopy

BMJ 2002;325:675.3 (Published 28 September 2002)

Graduate students are more challenging, demanding, and questioning

BMJ 2002;325:676.1 (Published 28 September 2002)

Good communication skills can mask deficiencies

BMJ 2002;325:676.2 (Published 28 September 2002)

Students' heads are so full of lists they have forgotten how to listen

BMJ 2002;325:677.1 (Published 28 September 2002)

Students need to resist personality conformity

BMJ 2002;325:677.2 (Published 28 September 2002)

FDA fails to reduce accessibility of paracetamol despite 450 deaths a year

BMJ 2002;325:678.1 (Published 28 September 2002)

Editorials

What's a good doctor, and how can you make one?

BMJ 2002;325:667 (Published 28 September 2002)

Patients' views of the good doctor

BMJ 2002;325:668 (Published 28 September 2002)

How can good performance among doctors be maintained?

BMJ 2002;325:669 (Published 28 September 2002)

Putting improvement at the heart of health care

BMJ 2002;325:670 (Published 28 September 2002)

Communications and emotions

BMJ 2002;325:672 (Published 28 September 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

John Richardson

BMJ 2002;325:716.1 (Published 28 September 2002)

Peter Alwyn-Smith

BMJ 2002;325:716.2 (Published 28 September 2002)

Jillia Ann Chong

BMJ 2002;325:716.3 (Published 28 September 2002)

David Anthony Furniss

BMJ 2002;325:716.4 (Published 28 September 2002)

John Terrance Gardiner

BMJ 2002;325:716.5 (Published 28 September 2002)

Obituaries - continued

John Terence Hennigan

BMJ 2002;325:716.6 (Published 28 September 2002)

Richard Stanley Charles Howell

BMJ 2002;325:716.7 (Published 28 September 2002)

John William Nicholson

BMJ 2002;325:716.8 (Published 28 September 2002)

Jerome Patrick Wall

BMJ 2002;325:716.9 (Published 28 September 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;325:724 (Published 28 September 2002)

Fillers

Another Osler aphorism

BMJ 2002;325:685.2 (Published 28 September 2002)

Who is your top doc?

BMJ 2002;325:692 (Published 28 September 2002)

Goodness and the good doctor

BMJ 2002;325:696 (Published 28 September 2002)

The good doctor around the world

BMJ 2002;325:700 (Published 28 September 2002)

Images of the good doctor in Western medicine

BMJ 2002;325:710 (Published 28 September 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

Measuring goodness in individuals and systems

BMJ 2002;325:0.3 (Published 28 September 2002)

Role models can help make good doctors

BMJ 2002;325:0.2 (Published 28 September 2002)

What's a good doctor?

BMJ 2002;325:0.8 (Published 28 September 2002)

How to acquire communication skills

BMJ 2002;325:0.6 (Published 28 September 2002)

Patients ration consultation time

BMJ 2002;325:0.5 (Published 28 September 2002)

Two minutes of talking is enough for most patients

BMJ 2002;325:0.4 (Published 28 September 2002)

Standardised patients are a valid measure of quality of care

BMJ 2002;325:0.1 (Published 28 September 2002)

Reviews give further views

BMJ 2002;325:0.9 (Published 28 September 2002)

The problem with competency based medical training

BMJ 2002;325:0.7 (Published 28 September 2002)

Letter

This week's Letter section

What's a good doctor and how do you make one?

BMJ 2002;325:711 (Published 28 September 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Key communication skills and how to acquire them

BMJ 2002;325:697 (Published 28 September 2002)

Abdominal pain and functional gastrointestinal disorders

BMJ 2002;325:701 (Published 28 September 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Ultrasound plus mammography may detect more early cancers

BMJ 2002;325:678.2 (Published 28 September 2002)

New mental health bill may conflict with advice from the GMC

BMJ 2002;325:678.3 (Published 28 September 2002)

Extra funds announced to fight cancer in Europe

BMJ 2002;325:678.4 (Published 28 September 2002)

A total of 58 million Americans lack health insurance

BMJ 2002;325:678.5 (Published 28 September 2002)

Papers

Using standardised patients to measure physicians' practice: validation study using audio recordings

BMJ 2002;325:679 (Published 28 September 2002)

Spontaneous talking time at start of consultation in outpatient clinic: cohort study

BMJ 2002;325:682 (Published 28 September 2002)

PapersWomen's attitudes to the sex of medical students in a gynaecology clinic: cross sectional surveyCommentary: Patients as partners in medical education

BMJ 2002;325:683 (Published 28 September 2002)

PapersUK senior doctors' career destinations, job satisfaction, and future intentions: questionnaire surveyCommentary: Are contented doctors good doctors?

BMJ 2002;325:685.1 (Published 28 September 2002)

Primary care

Primary carePatients' perceptions of entitlement to time in general practice consultations for depression: qualitative studyCommentary: Managing time appropriately in primary care

BMJ 2002;325:687 (Published 28 September 2002)

Patient centredness in the MRCGP video examination: analysis of large cohort

BMJ 2002;325:691 (Published 28 September 2002)

Learning in practice

Learning in practiceCompetency based medical training: reviewCommentary: The baby is thrown out with the bathwater

BMJ 2002;325:693 (Published 28 September 2002)

Education and debate

Measuring “goodness” in individuals and healthcare systems

BMJ 2002;325:704 (Published 28 September 2002)

How important are role models in making good doctors?

BMJ 2002;325:707 (Published 28 September 2002)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Between aspiration and reality

BMJ 2002;325:718 (Published 28 September 2002)

Searching for the good doctor

BMJ 2002;325:719 (Published 28 September 2002)

Doing better, looking worse

BMJ 2002;325:720 (Published 28 September 2002)

The Doctor's Dilemma

BMJ 2002;325:721.1 (Published 28 September 2002)

Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School

BMJ 2002;325:721.2 (Published 28 September 2002)

Words about doctors

BMJ 2002;325:722.2 (Published 28 September 2002)

Personal Views

Good doctor, bad doctor—a psychodynamic approach

BMJ 2002;325:722.1 (Published 28 September 2002)

Doctors and patients dance together

BMJ 2002;325:723.1 (Published 28 September 2002)

Soundings

The good doctor

BMJ 2002;325:723.2 (Published 28 September 2002)

Correction

Patients get access to evidence based, online health information

BMJ 2002;325:675.4 (Published 28 September 2002)