This week's This week in the BMJ

	Standardised patients are a valid measure of quality of care [Full text] FREE

	Role models can help make good doctors [Full text] FREE

	Measuring goodness in individuals and systems [Full text] FREE

	Two minutes of talking is enough for most patients [Full text] FREE

	Patients ration consultation time [Full text] FREE

	How to acquire communication skills [Full text] FREE

	The problem with competency based medical training [Full text] FREE

	What's a good doctor? [Full text] FREE

	Reviews give further views [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	What's a good doctor, and how can you make one?
	Brian Hurwitz, Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;325:667-668, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.667 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patients' views of the good doctor
	Angela Coulter
	BMJ  2002;325:668-669, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.668 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How can good performance among doctors be maintained?
	Michael West
	BMJ  2002;325:669-670, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.669 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Putting improvement at the heart of health care
	Peter Wilcock, Antony Lewis
	BMJ  2002;325:670-671, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.670 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Communications and emotions
	Robert Buckman
	BMJ  2002;325:672, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.672 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	What's a good doctor and how do you make one?
	Carlos A Rizo, Alejandro R Jadad, Murray Enkin, Malvinder S Parmar, Julio Sotelo, Gabriel S Gorin Rosenbaum, Paul Root Wolpe, Dipan N Mistry, Magdeldin A Elgizouli, Robert I Rudolph, Mark J Wilson, Louise Ward, Valerie James, Peter McMullin, Colin Guthrie, Malcolm R Macleod, Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2002;325:711, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.711 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Review warns that risks of long term HRT outweigh benefits
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;325:673, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.673 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Doctor accused of "interfering" in girl's treatment is cleared by GMC
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:673, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.673/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;325:674, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.674 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Afghan health workers should be allowed home to treat people
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;325:674, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.674/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Gynaecologists cleared of wrongdoing after death of patient
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:674, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.674/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	World Medical Association isolates Netherlands on euthanasia
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2002;325:675, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.675 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Exhibition looks at autism
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2002;325:675, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.675/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Breast feeding does not protect against atopy
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;325:675, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.675/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Graduate students are more challenging, demanding, and questioning
	Peter McCrorie
	BMJ  2002;325:676, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.676 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Good communication skills can mask deficiencies
	Allan Cumming
	BMJ  2002;325:676, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.676/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Students' heads are so full of lists they have forgotten how to listen
	Mike Shooter
	BMJ  2002;325:677, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.677 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Students need to resist personality conformity
	John Tooke
	BMJ  2002;325:677, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.677/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	FDA fails to reduce accessibility of paracetamol despite 450 deaths a year
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2002;325:678, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.678 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Ultrasound plus mammography may detect more early cancers
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;325:678, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.678/a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	New mental health bill may conflict with advice from the GMC
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;325:678, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.678/b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Extra funds announced to fight cancer in Europe
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2002;325:678, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.678/c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	A total of 58 million Americans lack health insurance
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2002;325:678, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.678/d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Using standardised patients to measure physicians' practice: validation study using audio recordings
	Jeff Luck, John W Peabody
	BMJ  2002;325:679, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.679 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Spontaneous talking time at start of consultation in outpatient clinic: cohort study
	Wolf Langewitz, Martin Denz, Anne Keller, Alexander Kiss, Sigmund Rüttimann, Brigitta Wössmer
	BMJ  2002;325:682-683, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.682 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Women's attitudes to the sex of medical students in a gynaecology clinic: cross sectional survey • Commentary: Patients as partners in medical education
	Norma O'Flynn, Janice Rymer, Val Wass
	BMJ  2002;325:683-684, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.683 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	UK senior doctors' career destinations, job satisfaction, and future intentions: questionnaire survey • Commentary: Are contented doctors good doctors?
	Jean M Davidson, Trevor W Lambert, Michael J Goldacre, James Parkhouse, Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2002;325:685-686, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.685 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Patients' perceptions of entitlement to time in general practice consultations for depression: qualitative study • Commentary: Managing time appropriately in primary care
	Kristian Pollock, Janet Grime, David Mechanic
	BMJ  2002;325:687, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.687 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patient centredness in the MRCGP video examination: analysis of large cohort
	Peter Campion, John Foulkes, Roger Neighbour, Peter Tate
	BMJ  2002;325:691-692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.691 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

This week's Learning in practice

	Competency based medical training: review • Commentary: The baby is thrown out with the bathwater
	Wai-Ching Leung, Vin Diwakar
	BMJ  2002;325:693-696, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.693 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Key communication skills and how to acquire them
	Peter Maguire, Carolyn Pitceathly
	BMJ  2002;325:697-700, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.697 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of psychological medicine: Abdominal pain and functional gastrointestinal disorders
	Elspeth Guthrie, David Thompson
	BMJ  2002;325:701-703, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.701 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The good doctor
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2002;325:723, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.723/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Good doctor, bad doctora psychodynamic approach
	Jeremy Holmes
	BMJ  2002;325:722, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.722 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors and patients dance together
	Arthur Smith
	BMJ  2002;325:723, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.723 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Measuring "goodness" in individuals and healthcare systems
	Mike Pringle, Tim Wilson, Richard Grol
	BMJ  2002;325:704-707, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.704 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: examples and references] FREE

	How important are role models in making good doctors?
	Elisabeth Paice, Shelley Heard, Fiona Moss
	BMJ  2002;325:707-710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.707 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Richardson
	H A Dewar
	BMJ  2002;325:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.716 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Peter Alwyn-Smith
	David Parry
	BMJ  2002;325:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.716/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Jillia Ann Chong
	Parto Forouhi
	BMJ  2002;325:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.716/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	David Anthony Furniss
	David Godfrey
	BMJ  2002;325:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.716/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	John Terrance Gardiner
	Arnold Elliott
	BMJ  2002;325:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.716/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	John Terence Hennigan
	Wiiliam I Fraser
	BMJ  2002;325:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.716/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Richard Stanley Charles Howell
	D G Tweedie
	BMJ  2002;325:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.716/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	John William Nicholson
	J S Milne
	BMJ  2002;325:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.716/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer vesion] FREE

	Jerome Patrick Wall
	W R Murdoch
	BMJ  2002;325:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.716/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Between aspiration and reality
	Polly Toynbee
	BMJ  2002;325:718, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.718 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doing better, looking worse
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2002;325:720, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.720 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Words about doctors
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2002;325:722, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.722/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;325:724, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.724 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Another Osler aphorism
	BMJ  2002;325:685, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.685/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Who is your top doc?
	BMJ  2002;325:692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.692 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Goodness and the good doctor
	Piers Benn
	BMJ  2002;325:696, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.696 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The good doctor around the world
	Helen Lambert
	BMJ  2002;325:700, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.700 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Images of the good doctor in Western medicine
	Cornelius O'Boyle
	BMJ  2002;325:710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.710 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Patients get access to evidence based, online health information
	BMJ  2002;325:675, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.675/c [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: The Doctor's Dilemma
	Howard Brody
	BMJ  2002;325:721, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.721 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School
	Thomas Laqueur
	BMJ  2002;325:721, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.721/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The BMJ 's wild goose chase
	BMJ  2002;325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.0/i [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Searching for the good doctor
	Richard E Ashcroft
	BMJ  2002;325:719, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7366.719 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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