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19 December 2009 (Vol 339, Issue 7735)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Thinking caps on

BMJ 2009;339:b5471 (Published 16 December 2009)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

In praise of the physical examination

BMJ 2009;339:b5448 (Published 16 December 2009)

Secret remedies: 100 years on

BMJ 2009;339:b5432 (Published 15 December 2009)

World hunger: a reasonable proposal

BMJ 2009;339:b5209 (Published 11 December 2009)

Where have all the hospital flowers gone?

BMJ 2009;339:b5406 (Published 16 December 2009)

Years Like This

This week's Years Like This section

Journal of another plague year

BMJ 2009;339:b5033 (Published 11 December 2009)

Will it all go wrong? Sod’s law and medicine

BMJ 2009;339:b5299 (Published 14 December 2009)

Patent medicines and secret remedies

BMJ 2009;339:b5415 (Published 14 December 2009)

I should cocoa

BMJ 2009;339:b5392 (Published 16 December 2009)

The Spanish influenza pandemic seen through the BMJ’s eyes: observations and unanswered questions

BMJ 2009;339:b5313 (Published 16 December 2009)

BMJ archive: the videos

BMJ 2009;339:b5439 (Published 16 December 2009)

Ingested foreign bodies and societal wealth: three year observational study of swallowed coins

BMJ 2009;339:b5066 (Published 4 December 2009)

Diagnosis

This week's Diagnosis section

A gold elixir of youth in the 16th century French court

BMJ 2009;339:b5311 (Published 16 December 2009)

Lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, winter 1872-3

BMJ 2009;339:b5038 (Published 4 December 2009)

Diagnosis - continued

Stigma and prejudice in Tintin

BMJ 2009;339:b5308 (Published 16 December 2009)

Animated ophthalmology

BMJ 2009;339:b4948 (Published 14 December 2009)

Lying obliquely—a clinical sign of cognitive impairment: cross sectional observational study

BMJ 2009;339:b5273 (Published 16 December 2009)

Darwin’s illness revisited

BMJ 2009;339:b4968 (Published 13 December 2009)

House calls: The case of the entertaining case

BMJ 2009;339:b5256 (Published 16 December 2009)

George Clooney, the cauliflower, the cardiologist, and phi, the golden ratio

BMJ 2009;339:b4745 (Published 13 December 2009)

Anaesthesia

This week's Anaesthesia section

Painless amputation: history of a discovery that wasn’t made

BMJ 2009;339:b5202 (Published 9 December 2009)

Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report

BMJ 2009;339:b4965 (Published 15 December 2009)

Prescriber’s narcophobia syndrome: physicians’ disease and patients’ misfortune

BMJ 2009;339:b4987 (Published 9 December 2009)

Christmas Fayre

This week's Christmas Fayre section

Christmas quiz

BMJ 2009;339:b5355 (Published 14 December 2009)

Christmas quiz: Answers

BMJ 2009;339:b4893 (Published 14 December 2009)

Santa Claus: a public health pariah?

BMJ 2009;339:b5261 (Published 16 December 2009)

Ethical dilemma

BMJ 2009;339:b5074 (Published 8 December 2009)

Musical Interlude

This week's Musical Interlude section

Django’s Hand

BMJ 2009;339:b5348 (Published 16 December 2009)

Effect of listening to Nellie the Elephant during CPR training on performance of chest compressions by lay people: randomised crossover trial

BMJ 2009;339:b4707 (Published 13 December 2009)

Young and Old

This week's Young and Old section

The association of early IQ and education with mortality: 65 year longitudinal study in Malmö, Sweden

BMJ 2009;339:b5282 (Published 11 December 2009)

Perceived age as clinically useful biomarker of ageing: cohort study

BMJ 2009;339:b5262 (Published 13 December 2009)

Retrospective analysis of attitudes to ageing in the Economist: apocalyptic demography for opinion formers

BMJ 2009;339:b4914 (Published 8 December 2009)

Afterlife

This week's Afterlife section

“Silent virtuous teachers”: anatomical dissection in Taiwan

BMJ 2009;339:b5001 (Published 16 December 2009)

From flower graves to breast clinics

BMJ 2009;339:b4932 (Published 14 December 2009)

Professional Matters

This week's Professional Matters section

Brain maps

BMJ 2009;339:b5490 (Published 16 December 2009)

Wards of the roses

BMJ 2009;339:b5257 (Published 16 December 2009)

Selling patients

BMJ 2009;339:b5201 (Published 14 December 2009)

H-index pathology: implications for medical researchers and practitioners

BMJ 2009;339:b5356 (Published 15 December 2009)

Evidence based merriment

BMJ 2009;339:b5098 (Published 7 December 2009)

The surgical sieve

BMJ 2009;339:b5384 (Published 16 December 2009)