20 October 2001 (Vol 323, Issue 7318)

Editor's Choice

Doctors and patients: flying apart?

BMJ 2001;323:0.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

News

US fear of bioterrorism spreads as anthrax cases increase

BMJ 2001;323:883.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

UK doctors given guidance on dealing with anthrax

BMJ 2001;323:883.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Doctors divided in their attitude to military strikes on Afghganistan

BMJ 2001;323:884.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

In brief

BMJ 2001;323:884.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Leading UK paediatrician reinstated

BMJ 2001;323:885.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

Hospital at centre of claims of racism is “turning the corner,” report says

BMJ 2001;323:885.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Progress is slow in narrowing the health research divide

BMJ 2001;323:886 (Published 20 October 2001)

Quarter of GPs want to quit, BMA survey shows

BMJ 2001;323:887 (Published 20 October 2001)

Meeting calls for a national body to respond to research misconduct

BMJ 2001;323:889.4 (Published 20 October 2001)

Coaxing doctors to confess

BMJ 2001;323:890.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

Editorials

Appropriate responses to bioterrorist threats

BMJ 2001;323:877 (Published 20 October 2001)

Psychological implications of chemical and biological weapons

BMJ 2001;323:878 (Published 20 October 2001)

Neurodegenerative disorders

BMJ 2001;323:879 (Published 20 October 2001)

Aromatase inhibitors and inactivators in breast cancer

BMJ 2001;323:880 (Published 20 October 2001)

Treatment of sepsis with activated protein C

BMJ 2001;323:881 (Published 20 October 2001)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Wanted: social contract for practice of medicine

BMJ 2001;323:930.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

Delivery by caesarean section

BMJ 2001;323:930.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Take home naloxone for opiate addicts

BMJ 2001;323:934 (Published 20 October 2001)

Bell's phenomenon should not be regarded as pathognomonic sign

BMJ 2001;323:935.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

Doctors should be trained in advanced life support before students are

BMJ 2001;323:935.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Lactulose may help prevent urinary tract infections

BMJ 2001;323:936.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

Audit is powerful tool for accident and emergency service

BMJ 2001;323:936.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Ethics cost, whether you have them or not

BMJ 2001;323:936.3 (Published 20 October 2001)

Stereotyping may highlight diagnoses that might be missed

BMJ 2001;323:937.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

Letters - continued

Condom gap in Africa is wider than study suggests

BMJ 2001;323:937.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Thrombolysis must be considered after stroke

BMJ 2001;323:937.3 (Published 20 October 2001)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2001;323:944 (Published 20 October 2001)

Fillers

“That's very nice, but will it get me pregnant?”

BMJ 2001;323:895 (Published 20 October 2001)

Nurses for the middle classes

BMJ 2001;323:900.3 (Published 20 October 2001)

Democracy

BMJ 2001;323:900.4 (Published 20 October 2001)

This Week In the BMJ

Clinical Reviews

Virtual reality in surgery

BMJ 2001;323:912 (Published 20 October 2001)

Evidence based management of childhood obesity

BMJ 2001;323:916 (Published 20 October 2001)

Oscillatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Devices

BMJ 2001;323:919 (Published 20 October 2001)

Epidemiology and diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection

BMJ 2001;323:920 (Published 20 October 2001)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

MEPs add their voice to protest at patent for breast cancer gene

BMJ 2001;323:888.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

UK physicians work 21 hours a week more than contracted, says report

BMJ 2001;323:888.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Admissions of private patients to public hospitals in Ireland increase

BMJ 2001;323:888.3 (Published 20 October 2001)

BMA attacks GMC's revalidation proposals

BMJ 2001;323:888.4 (Published 20 October 2001)

Suicide rate in young men in Scotland is twice that in England and Wales

BMJ 2001;323:888.5 (Published 20 October 2001)

Consumer groups fight plans for “direct to patient” drug advertisements

BMJ 2001;323:889.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

Database of patients possibly exposed to CJD is proposed

BMJ 2001;323:889.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Cooling patients after cardiac arrest may prevent brain damage

BMJ 2001;323:889.3 (Published 20 October 2001)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Papers

Primary care

Education and debate

Books

Writings on an Ethical Life

BMJ 2001;323:940.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness

BMJ 2001;323:940.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Odyssey; What for Chop Today?

BMJ 2001;323:941.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

PRESS

Are the media losing faith in the NHS?

BMJ 2001;323:941.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Anthrax and the US media

BMJ 2001;323:942.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Bioterrorism

BMJ 2001;323:942.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Personal View

Pilgrimage

BMJ 2001;323:943.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

Soundings

Lucky fibrillator

BMJ 2001;323:943.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Corrections

New house officers lack clinical skills

BMJ 2001;323:885.3 (Published 20 October 2001)

Relation between insufficient response to antihypertensive treatment and poor compliance with treatment: a prospective case-control study

BMJ 2001;323:900.1 (Published 20 October 2001)

Drug Point

BMJ 2001;323:900.2 (Published 20 October 2001)

Obituary