Editor's Choice From the deadly serious to the downright barmy BMJ 1997; 315 :0; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Clinical Reviews One for the heart BMJ 1997; 315 :1664; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission What's in a Gnome? BMJ 1997; 315 :1668; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Minerva Minerva BMJ 1997; 315 :1722; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Editorials Festive cheer for all? BMJ 1997; 315 :1638; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission New Labour, new NHS? BMJ 1997; 315 :1639; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission An ethical code for everybody in health care BMJ 1997; 315 :1633; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Social suffering: relevance for doctors BMJ 1997; 315 :1634; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Choosing the best research design for each question BMJ 1997; 315 :1636; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Just what the doctor ordered—more alcohol and sex BMJ 1997; 315 :1637; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Career focus Tackling the midlife crisis BMJ 1997; 315 :S2-7123; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Briefing BMJ 1997; 315 :S3-7123; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Briefing BMJ 1997; 315 :S3a-7123; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Education and debate A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices BMJ 1997; 315 :1685; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Commentary: Ambivalence toward fatness and its origins BMJ 1997; 315 :1703; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission History: Two hundred years since Malthus BMJ 1997; 315 :1686; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission How Renoir coped with rheumatoid arthritis BMJ 1997; 315 :1704; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Sailors and star-bursts, and the arrival of HIV BMJ 1997; 315 :1689; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Responses The electronic future: What might an online scientific paper look like in five years' time? BMJ 1997; 315 :1692; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission From snapshot to movie BMJ 1997; 315 :1693; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Medicine as a profession: Hip, Hip, Hippocrates: extracts from The Hippocratic Doctor BMJ 1997; 315 :1669; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Variation adds value to the author's logic BMJ 1997; 315 :1693; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Swearing to care: the resurgence in medical oaths BMJ 1997; 315 :1671; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Looking to the future: amazon.com and four trends BMJ 1997; 315 :1694; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Professionalism must be taught BMJ 1997; 315 :1674; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Responses It could fulfil our dreams BMJ 1997; 315 :1695; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Medicine needs its MI5 BMJ 1997; 315 :1677; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Responses “Papers” will still exist BMJ 1997; 315 :1695; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission The Bmj and the 77 specialties of medicine BMJ 1997; 315 :1680; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Something for everyone BMJ 1997; 315 :1696; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission How to do it: How to acquire a coat of arms BMJ 1997; 315 :1682; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Illnesses and creativity: Byron's appetites, James Joyce's gut, and Melba's meals and mésalliances BMJ 1997; 315 :1697; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Fillers When I use a word…: Crosses and stars BMJ 1997; 315 :g; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission General practice So many precious stories: a reflective narrative of patient based medicine in general practice, Christmas 1996 BMJ 1997; 315 :1659; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Do overweight people remove their shoes before being weighed by a doctor? Consecutive study of patients in general practice BMJ 1997; 315 :1663; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Papers The colon in medicine: nothing to do with the intestinal tract BMJ 1997; 315 :1657; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Sex and death: are they related? Findings from the Caerphilly cohort study BMJ 1997; 315 :1641; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Responses The earth may move, but let's keep our feet on the ground BMJ 1997; 315 :1645; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Risk factors for winter outbreak of acute diarrhoea in France: case-control study BMJ 1997; 315 :1645; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Death rates of characters in soap operas on British television: is a government health warning required? BMJ 1997; 315 :1649; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Reliability of distance estimation by doctors and patients: cross sectional study BMJ 1997; 315 :1652; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Births at Christmas are different: population based survey of 2 million deliveries BMJ 1997; 315 :1654; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Do you know your chocolates? Recognition survey among medical staff of various grades BMJ 1997; 315 :1655; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Increasing handicaps in hospital medicine: two point cross sectional study of golfing activity among doctors BMJ 1997; 315 :1656; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Personal Views La salle de garde: bastion of the French lunch hour for junior doctors BMJ 1997; 315 :1708; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission The hidden delight of psoriasis BMJ 1997; 315 :1709; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Responses Gimme five—books, that is BMJ 1997; 315 :1712; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Responses A history BMJ 1997; 315 :1718; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Visual acuity BMJ 1997; 315 :1719; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission A minimental status examination BMJ 1997; 315 :1719; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission BMJ rap BMJ 1997; 315 :1720; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Soundings The session BMJ 1997; 315 :1721; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission This Week In the BMJ Winter outbreaks of acute diarrhoea in France are not caused by shellfish consumption BMJ 1997; 315 :b; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Soap opera characters have higher mortality than steeplejacks BMJ 1997; 315 :c; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Neither doctors nor patients can assess distances BMJ 1997; 315 :d; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Once over middle age some alcohol is good for you—and it doesn't matter what type BMJ 1997; 315 :e; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Sex may protect men against death (or dying may protect them against sex) BMJ 1997; 315 :a; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission Fat people are not more likely to take their shoes off before being weighed BMJ 1997; 315 :f; (Published 20 December 1997) Permission