12 June 1999(vol 318, issue 7198)

This Week In the BMJ

• Patient complaints are damaging for doctors' health and practice

  BMJ 1999; 318 :f (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Hospital experiences affect pain management in sickle cell disease

  BMJ 1999; 318 :c (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Lymphoedema and site of entry are risk factors for cellulitis

  BMJ 1999; 318 :d (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Surveillance of playground accidents can lead to their reduction

  BMJ 1999; 318 :e (Published 12 June 1999)

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• No link supported between myocardial infarction and oral contraceptive use

  BMJ 1999; 318 :b (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Is choosing the right antibiotic really that difficult?

  BMJ 1999; 318 :g (Published 12 June 1999)

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Editorials

• Learning from complaints about general practitioners

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• Free the slaves

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1568 (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Nutritional hyperhomocysteinaemia

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• Clinical Evidence

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• Antithrombotic therapy in cancer

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Letters

• Is there a rationale for rationing chronic dialysis?

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1619 (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Rationing of sildenafil

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• Patient centred care of diabetes in general practice

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1621 (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Prenatal and perinatal risk factors for psychiatric diseases of early onset

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• Antibiotics for acute sinusitis in general practice

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• Breast feeding and working mothers

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• Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences has been busy in recent months

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• Early diet in preterm babies and later intelligence quotient

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News

• UK junior doctors vote to ballot on industrial action

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• Increasing numbers of English junior doctors work above agreed limits on hours

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• In brief

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• European plan to put obesity on governments' health agenda

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• US considers ban on British blood

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• Younger women might benefit from breast cancer screening

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• Neural stem cells successfully transplanted

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• Bristol manager argues patient care was a matter for clinicians

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• Welsh Office to review consultant's lengthy suspension

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• UK consultants warn of overwork and general demoralisation

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• New president of the German Medical Council may back reform

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• English surgeons call for improved management of head injury

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• Doctors in Israel oppose open performance data

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• Pregnancy does not increase mortality from breast cancer

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• Another media scare about MMR vaccine hits Britain

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Clinical Reviews

• Atopic eczema

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• Cavernous haemangioma mimicking multiple sclerosis

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• Organ dysfunction

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice [GP]

• Failure: the great teacher

  BMJ 1999; 318 :0 (Published 12 June 1999)

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Editor's Choice

• Failure: the great teacher

  BMJ 1999; 318 :a (Published 12 June 1999)

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Canadian GPs believe that media health reporting could be better

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1578 (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Scrips for Viagra to be free in Ireland

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1578 (Published 12 June 1999)

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• More use of private sector could cut NHS waiting lists

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• Hungarian doctor charged with running baby selling scheme

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Papers

• Oral contraceptives and myocardial infarction: results of the MICA case-control studyCommentary: Oral contraceptives and myocardial infarction: reassuring new findings

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• Experiences of hospital care and treatment seeking for pain from sickle cell disease: qualitative study

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1585 (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Risk factors for erysipelas of the leg (cellulitis): case-control study

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1591 (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Preventing injuries in public playgrounds through partnership between health services and local authority: community intervention study

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1595 (Published 12 June 1999)

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General practice

• General practitioners' experiences of patients' complaints: qualitative study

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Education and debate

• Towards an understanding of oedema

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• How do you choose antibiotic treatment?Commentary: Resist jumping to conclusionsCommentary: A matter of good clinical practiceCommentary: Honesty is the best policy

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• Senior medical staffs conferenceJunior doctors conferenceBMA's ARM agenda

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Books

• High Life: A History of High Altitude Physiology and Medicine

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• Against the Grain: The Genetic Transformation of Global Agriculture

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TV

• Adding insult to injury

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

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BESTSELLERS

• May Bestsellers

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Personal View

• The beginning of the end

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Soundings

• Good doctors doing nothing

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Career focus

• Challenging the “F” word: redefining failure in medical careers

  BMJ 1999; 318 :S2-7198 (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• A new day in surgery

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• Women's complaints

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• Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

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• Something to celebrate

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1609 (Published 12 June 1999)

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• “It's got to be terrible!”

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Corrections

• Quebec faces severe pressure on casualty departments

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1584 (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Call to needle times after acute myocardial infarction

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1584 (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Reforming British primary care (again)

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• Ordeals for the fetal programming hypothesis

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• Preventing injuries in children: cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1584 (Published 12 June 1999)

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• Computer support for determining drug dose: systematic review and meta-analysis

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• ABC of labour care: induction

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Obituary

• Robert Hugh CawleyJohn David EbsworthAnne Lydia EvansHoward Brinley JenkinsKenneth Arthur LatterMartin LawrenceAnn MoranJames Robinson RowellAnne SpoerreyKenneth Eric WarrenLeslie Andrew Wilson

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1626 (Published 12 June 1999)

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