Death and dying
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2009;339:b5044, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5044 (Published 26 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

	End of life care in the acute hospital setting
	Polly Edmonds, Rachel Burman, Wendy Prentice
	BMJ  2009;339:b5048, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5048 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Socioeconomic inequalities in survival in neonates
	Ron Gray, Marie C McCormick
	BMJ  2009;339:b5041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5041 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New interim guidance on assisted suicide
	Richard Huxtable, Karen Forbes
	BMJ  2009;339:b4900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4900 (Published 26 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
	Jenny Griffiths, Mala Rao
	BMJ  2009;339:b4952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4952 (Published 25 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Participating in research: Patients deserve more than a "Thank you"
	Hasnain M Dalal, Jenny Wingham, Philip Evans, Rod Taylor, John Campbell
	BMJ  2009;339:b4522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4522 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Participating in research: What might I, a patient, think?
	Hazel Thornton
	BMJ  2009;339:b4820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4820 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgery for obesity: Option of plastic surgery is a postcode lottery
	Ihab Hujazi, James Henderson
	BMJ  2009;339:b4961, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4961 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Varenicline and suicide: Risk of psychiatric side effects with varenicline
	Thomas J Moore, Curt D Furberg
	BMJ  2009;339:b4964, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4964 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Varenicline and suicide: Authors’ reply
	David Gunnell, David Irvine, Lesley Wise, Claire Davies, Richard M Martin
	BMJ  2009;339:b4969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4969 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 flu pandemic: Consider bronchoalveolar lavage
	Chris Thorpe, Stuart Darcy
	BMJ  2009;339:b5094, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5094 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Past lessons and health reform: Breaking the cycle
	Stephen F Hayes
	BMJ  2009;339:b5131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5131 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recurrent respiratory infection: HIV needs to be excluded
	Paul Collini, Julia Greig
	BMJ  2009;339:b5135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5135 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training surgeons: Clinical judgment skills are needed too
	J Graham Williams
	BMJ  2009;339:b5137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5137 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training surgeons: The 10 000 hour rule
	Donald MacDonald, Kieran Jefferson
	BMJ  2009;339:b5138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5138 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training surgeons: Reorganise out of hours rotas
	Simon Paterson-Brown
	BMJ  2009;339:b5139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5139 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training surgeons: Work on motivation, don’t complain about hours
	Thomas Krasemann
	BMJ  2009;339:b5140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5140 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training surgeons: EWTD in the European capital
	Ashok K Bohra
	BMJ  2009;339:b5141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5141 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Features

	Quality of Care: On the origin of variation
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2009;339:b5071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5071 (Published 2 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health Policy: Handing over the prescription pad
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2009;339:b4835, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4835 (Published 27 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Climate Change: Opportunity knocks: health wins from action on global warming
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  2009;339:b4947, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4947 (Published 25 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Yankee Doodling: Mammograms, poor communication, and politics
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2009;339:b5175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5175 (Published 2 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics Man: Wonder in medicine
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2009;339:b4976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4976 (Published 25 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

	Is the conflict of interest unacceptable when drug companies conduct trials on their own drugs? No
	Vincent Lawton
	BMJ  2009;339:b4953, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4953 (Published 29 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is the conflict of interest unacceptable when drug companies conduct trials on their own drugs? Yes
	Ben Goldacre
	BMJ  2009;339:b4949, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4949 (Published 29 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Ethical debate: Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients’ best interests? Medical opinion
	Kevin Mackway-Jones
	BMJ  2009;339:b4697, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4697 (Published 26 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical debate: Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients’ best interests? Ethical view
	Sheila A M McLean
	BMJ  2009;339:b4695, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4695 (Published 26 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical debate: Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients’ best interests? Legal advice
	Marika Davies
	BMJ  2009;339:b4693, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4693 (Published 26 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical debate: Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients’ best interests?
	Stephen Bonner, Michael Tremlett, Dominic Bell
	BMJ  2009;339:b4667, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4667 (Published 26 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra][extra: Web Extra]

Views and Reviews

	From the Frontline: Science friction
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;339:b5176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5176 (Published 2 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The forgotten poet laureate
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;339:b5182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5182 (Published 2 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: Round robin
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2009;339:b5191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5191 (Published 2 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View: Encounter with a doula: is the system failing new mothers?
	Abhijoy Chakladar
	BMJ  2009;339:b5112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5112 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Secrets of the dustbin
	Andrew Jarvis
	BMJ  2009;339:b4990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4990 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: Come dance with me in Ireland
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2009;339:b4970, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4970 (Published 25 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: The new black death
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2009;339:b5047, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5047 (Published 25 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	Dennis Snow Ridley
	Anthony Bryceson
	BMJ  2009;339:b5170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5170 (Published 30 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	Richard James Bayly
	Sally Thomson
	BMJ  2009;339:b5169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5169 (Published 30 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	John Michael Naish
	Sonya Naish
	BMJ  2009;339:b5168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5168 (Published 30 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	Janina Elizabeth Hopkin
	Julian Hopkin
	BMJ  2009;339:b5166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5166 (Published 30 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	Arthur Powell Wyatt
	Edward Wyatt, George Wyatt
	BMJ  2009;339:b5165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5165 (Published 30 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	Martin Frank Hyatt
	V R K Rao
	BMJ  2009;339:b5143, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5143 (Published 30 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	James Lionel Somervell
	William A M Cutting, Jeffrey M Dolphin
	BMJ  2009;339:b5008, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5008 (Published 30 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	Gareth Richard Melville-Jones
	Sally Williams
	BMJ  2009;339:b2959, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b2959 (Published 30 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	Marek Edelman
	Boleslav Lichterman
	BMJ  2009;339:b4992, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4992 (Published 25 November 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

Fillers

	The late Matron Wardroper (1892)
	BMJ  2009;339:b2096, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b2096 (Published 2 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unwise words: now that’s wasn’t very clever
	Tom Wells
	BMJ  2009;339:b4530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4530 (Published 1 December 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Combining insulin with metformin or an insulin secretagogue in non-obese patients with type 2 diabetes: 12 month, randomised, double blind trial
	BMJ  2009;339:b5198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5198 (Published 1 December 2009) [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Continuation of metformin after introduction of insulin in type 2 diabetes
	BMJ  2009;339:b5199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5199 (Published 1 December 2009) [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Exercise on prescription for women aged 40-74 recruited through primary care: two year randomised controlled trial
	BMJ  2009;339:b5054, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5054 (Published 26 November 2009) [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Generalised tetanus in a patient with a chronic ulcerated skin lesion
	BMJ  2009;339:b5061, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5061 (Published 26 November 2009) [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Income inequality, mortality, and self rated health: meta-analysis of multilevel studies
	BMJ  2009;339:b5063, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5063 (Published 26 November 2009) [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospitals are criticised for yielding to pressure over human rights lecture
	BMJ  2009;339:b5084, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5084 (Published 26 November 2009) [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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