20 December 1997(vol 315, issue 7123)

This Week In the BMJ

• Fat people are not more likely to take their shoes off before being weighed

  BMJ 1997; 315 :f (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Neither doctors nor patients can assess distances

  BMJ 1997; 315 :d (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Soap opera characters have higher mortality than steeplejacks

  BMJ 1997; 315 :c (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Winter outbreaks of acute diarrhoea in France are not caused by shellfish consumption

  BMJ 1997; 315 :b (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Sex may protect men against death (or dying may protect them against sex)

  BMJ 1997; 315 :a (Published 20 December 1997)

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• 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)

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Editorials

• An ethical code for everybody in health care

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1633 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Social suffering: relevance for doctors

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1634 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Choosing the best research design for each question

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1636 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Just what the doctor ordered—more alcohol and sex

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1637 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Festive cheer for all?

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1638 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• New Labour, new NHS?

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1639 (Published 20 December 1997)

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Clinical Reviews

• One for the heart

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1664 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• What's in a Gnome?

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1668 (Published 20 December 1997)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1722 (Published 20 December 1997)

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Editor's Choice

• From the deadly serious to the downright barmy

  BMJ 1997; 315 :0 (Published 20 December 1997)

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Papers

• Sex and death: are they related? Findings from the Caerphilly cohort study

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1641 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• The earth may move, but let's keep our feet on the ground

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1645 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Risk factors for winter outbreak of acute diarrhoea in France: case-control study

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1645 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Death rates of characters in soap operas on British television: is a government health warning required?

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1649 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Reliability of distance estimation by doctors and patients: cross sectional study

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1652 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Births at Christmas are different: population based survey of 2 million deliveries

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1654 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Do you know your chocolates? Recognition survey among medical staff of various grades

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1655 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Increasing handicaps in hospital medicine: two point cross sectional study of golfing activity among doctors

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1656 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• The colon in medicine: nothing to do with the intestinal tract

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1657 (Published 20 December 1997)

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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)

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• 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)

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Education and debate

• Medicine as a profession: Hip, Hip, Hippocrates: extracts from The Hippocratic Doctor

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1669 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Swearing to care: the resurgence in medical oaths

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1671 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Professionalism must be taught

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1674 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Medicine needs its MI5

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1677 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• The Bmj and the 77 specialties of medicine

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1680 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• How to do it: How to acquire a coat of arms

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1682 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1685 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• History: Two hundred years since Malthus

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1686 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Sailors and star-bursts, and the arrival of HIV

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1689 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• The electronic future: What might an online scientific paper look like in five years' time?

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1692 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• From snapshot to movie

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1693 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Variation adds value to the author's logic

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1693 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Looking to the future: amazon.com and four trends

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1694 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• It could fulfil our dreams

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1695 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• “Papers” will still exist

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1695 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Something for everyone

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1696 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Illnesses and creativity: Byron's appetites, James Joyce's gut, and Melba's meals and mésalliances

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1697 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Commentary: Ambivalence toward fatness and its origins

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1703 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• How Renoir coped with rheumatoid arthritis

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1704 (Published 20 December 1997)

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Personal Views

• La salle de garde: bastion of the French lunch hour for junior doctors

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1708 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• The hidden delight of psoriasis

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1709 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Gimme five—books, that is

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1712 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• A history

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1718 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Visual acuity

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1719 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• A minimental status examination

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1719 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• BMJ rap

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1720 (Published 20 December 1997)

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Soundings

• The session

  BMJ 1997; 315 :1721 (Published 20 December 1997)

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Career focus

• Tackling the midlife crisis

  BMJ 1997; 315 :S2-7123 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Briefing

  BMJ 1997; 315 :S3-7123 (Published 20 December 1997)

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• Briefing

  BMJ 1997; 315 :S3a-7123 (Published 20 December 1997)

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Fillers

• When I use a word…: Crosses and stars

  BMJ 1997; 315 :g (Published 20 December 1997)

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