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Gwyn Bevan, Christopher Hood BMJ  2006;332:419-422, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.419 [Full text]1394 [PDF]353 [extra: Additional references]86   Letters This week's letters [PDF]84 An alcoholic patient who continues to drink: endoscopic treatment is preferred Mark Hudson BMJ  2006;332:423, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.423 [Extract]116 [Full text]311   The incidence of gastroschisis: Research urgently needs resources Pierpaolo Mastroiacovo, Alessandra Lisi, Eduardo E Castilla BMJ  2006;332:423-424, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.423-a [Extract]105 [Full text]240   The incidence of gastroschisis: Is also increasing in Spain, particularly among babies of young mothers Eva Bermejo, Jacobo Mendioroz, Lourdes Cuevas, María-Luisa Martínez-Frías BMJ  2006;332:424, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.424 [Extract]62 [Full text]151   Assessing fitness to practise: Common sense approach to revalidation/accreditation Anton E A Joseph BMJ  2006;332:424, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.424-a [Extract]80 [Full text]220   Assessing fitness to practise: Revalidation is a long and winding road Maurice Conlon BMJ  2006;332:424-425, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.424-b [Extract]44 [Full text]156   Conscientious objection in medicine: Author did not meet standards of argument based ethics Frank A Chervenak, Laurence B McCullough BMJ  2006;332:425, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.425 [Extract]71 [Full text]320   Conscientious objection in medicine: Doctors' freedom of conscience Vaughan P Smith BMJ  2006;332:425, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.425-a [Extract]57 [Full text]283   Conscientious objection in medicine: The ethics of responding to bird flu Elizabeth Murray, Paquita de Zulueta BMJ  2006;332:425, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.425-b [Extract]93 [Full text]333   Obituaries This week's obituaries [PDF]123 Tony Jackson Stephen Jackson, Mark Caulfield BMJ  2006;332:426, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.426 [Full text]346 [extra: Longer version]236   John Hammerton Bill Hammerton BMJ  2006;332:427, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.427 [Full text]159 [extra: Longer version]200   Robin Frank Holloway Horn Melvin Green BMJ  2006;332:427, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.427-a [Full text]156 [extra: Longer version]192   James Ewart Horrocks Andrew W Horrocks BMJ  2006;332:427, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.427-b [Full text]177 [extra: Longer version]195   John Martel Hughes Valerie Evans BMJ  2006;332:427, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.427-c [Full text]158 [extra: Longer version]205   Douglas Reginald Sturrock Leslie Agnes Hauck, Pat Leslie BMJ  2006;332:427, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.427-d [Full text]147 [extra: Longer version]189   Joseph Magri O M Jonathan, B A Thompson BMJ  2006;332:427, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.427-e [Full text]164 [extra: Longer version]190   David John Rudman David Honeybourne BMJ  2006;332:427, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.427-f [Full text]154 [extra: Longer version]186   Andre Jacques van Amerongen Richard Sutcliffe BMJ  2006;332:427, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.427-g [Full text]172 [extra: Longer version]180   reviews This week's reviews [PDF]57 Book: Contact Wounds: A War Surgeon's Education Richard Villar BMJ  2006;332:428, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.428 [Extract]106 [Full text]462   Book: Cultivating a Thinking Surgeon: New Perspectives on Clinical Teaching, Learning and Assessment James Drife BMJ  2006;332:429, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.429 [Extract]98 [Full text]465   Book: The Hills of Angheri Sanjay A Pai BMJ  2006;332:429, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.429-a [Extract]46 [Full text]151   Art: The Welfare Show Colin Martin BMJ  2006;332:430, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.430 [Extract]56 [Full text]165   Film: Proof Khalid Ali BMJ  2006;332:430, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.430-a [Extract]137 [Full text]478   Personal views: Assessment of doctors in training: should patients give consent? P G Lawler BMJ  2006;332:431, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.431 [Extract]136 [Full text]685   Soundings: The old man's friend Trisha Greenhalgh BMJ  2006;332:431, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.431-a [Extract]172 [Full text]776   Minerva Minerva BMJ  2006;332:432, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.432 [Full text]766 [PDF]102   Fillers bmjupdates+: More evidence that hormone replacement therapy causes incontinence in postmenopausal women BMJ  2006;332, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.0-e [Full text]390 [PDF]78   An unusual ending to an anatomy lesson Janet Cornwall BMJ  2006;332:422, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.422 [Full text]826 [PDF]82   Corrections Interactive case report: an alcoholic patient who continues to drink: case outcome BMJ  2006;332:396, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.396 [Full text]138 [PDF]47 FREE   Patients get four choices for NHS treatments BMJ  2006;332:396, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.396-a [Full text]117 [PDF]18 FREE   Barriers to using warfarin in non-valvular atrial fibrillation BMJ  2006;332:396, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7538.396-b [Full text]109 [PDF]27 FREE

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