24 December 2011 (Vol 343, Issue 7837)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

At the Christmas party

BMJ 2011;343:d8233 (Published 21 December 2011)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Death can be our friend

BMJ 2011;343:d8008 (Published 21 December 2011)

When balance is bias

BMJ 2011;343:d8006 (Published 20 December 2011)

Recognising the potential of cities

BMJ 2011;343:d7979 (Published 19 December 2011)

Three planks of the Pirate Party’s platform that matter to doctors

BMJ 2011;343:d8101 (Published 20 December 2011)

Death's Dominion

This week's Death's Dominion section

How fast does the Grim Reaper walk? Receiver operating characteristics curve analysis in healthy men aged 70 and over

BMJ 2011;343:d7679 (Published 15 December 2011)

Is 27 really a dangerous age for famous musicians? Retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2011;343:d7799 (Published 20 December 2011)

A series of unfortunate events? Morbidity and mortality in a Borsetshire village

BMJ 2011;343:d7518 (Published 15 December 2011)

Should the skeleton of “the Irish giant” be buried at sea?

BMJ 2011;343:d7597 (Published 20 December 2011)

Death without the sting

BMJ 2011;343:d7369 (Published 20 December 2011)

Diagnosis

This week's Diagnosis section

Manchester United induced addisonian crisis

BMJ 2011;343:d7732 (Published 15 December 2011)

Prize your eyes

BMJ 2011;343:d7819 (Published 19 December 2011)

Was James Joyce myopic or hyperopic?

BMJ 2011;343:d7464 (Published 15 December 2011)

The writing’s on the wall for Sherlock

BMJ 2011;343:d7406 (Published 20 December 2011)

Beethoven’s deafness and his three styles

BMJ 2011;343:d7589 (Published 20 December 2011)

What Three Wise Men have to say about diagnosis

BMJ 2011;343:d7769 (Published 20 December 2011)

Oral Traditions

This week's Oral Traditions section

Cod liver oil and tuberculosis

BMJ 2011;343:d7505 (Published 20 December 2011)

Political correctness: a step too far?

BMJ 2011;343:d7451 (Published 19 December 2011)

Dosing of oral penicillins in children: is big child=half an adult, small child=half a big child, baby=half a small child still the best we can do?

BMJ 2011;343:d7803 (Published 15 December 2011)

High salt meals in staff canteens of salt policy makers: observational study

BMJ 2011;343:d7352 (Published 20 December 2011)

The royal road to healing: a bit of a saga

BMJ 2011;343:d7826 (Published 19 December 2011)

Food for Thought

This week's Food for Thought section

The assault on universalism: how to destroy the welfare state

BMJ 2011;343:d7973 (Published 20 December 2011)

Hand-out Britain

BMJ 2011;343:d7828 (Published 21 December 2011)

Evolutionary biology within medicine: a perspective of growing value

BMJ 2011;343:d7671 (Published 19 December 2011)

Neo-evolution: is Homo sapiens ready?

BMJ 2011;343:d7649 (Published 21 December 2011)

Jellyatrics

BMJ 2011;343:d7447 (Published 21 December 2011)

Professional Matters

This week's Professional Matters section

Who gets struck off?

BMJ 2011;343:d7842 (Published 21 December 2011)

Qualifications of a good surgeon

BMJ 2011;343:d8002 (Published 19 December 2011)

Orthopaedic surgeons: as strong as an ox and almost twice as clever? Multicentre prospective comparative study

BMJ 2011;343:d7506 (Published 15 December 2011)

Relevance of the expression “obs stable” in nursing observations: retrospective study

BMJ 2011;343:d7504 (Published 20 December 2011)

When is a “free” registrar in clinic not free?

BMJ 2011;343:d7869 (Published 20 December 2011)

Inguinal hernioplasty using mosquito net mesh in low income countries: an alternative and cost effective prosthesis

BMJ 2011;343:d7448 (Published 15 December 2011)

N of 1, two contemporary arm, randomised controlled clinical trial for bilateral epicondylitis: a new study design

BMJ 2011;343:d7653 (Published 20 December 2011)

Christmas picture quiz

BMJ 2011;343:d7917 (Published 21 December 2011)