15 November 2008(vol 337, issue 7679)

Editor's Choice

• Doctors’ health matters

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Editorials

• Doctors’ health

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• Topping up NHS care

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• Improving palliative care in Africa

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• Sperm donation in the UK

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• The BMJ Evidence Centre

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Letters

• Euthanasia and depression: no surprise

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• Psychiatric review is mandatory in Australia

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• Depression in terminal illness

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• Quality of guidelines on obesity in children is worrying

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• Guidelines perpetuate inappropriate methods

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• Importance of behaviour in interventions

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• EQUATOR Network collates resources for good research

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News

• Trial stopped early after rosuvastatin found to cut the risk of heart attack and stroke by 44% in healthy people

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• Oxford animal research centre opens despite disruption from protestors

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• Television chef calls for minister of food to tackle obesity

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• GMC suspends doctor for describing gay people as “twisted” group who “prey on society”

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• UK audit shows need for greater caution with chemotherapy in very sick patients

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• MPs call for end to cheap alcohol promotions to reduce crime

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• In brief

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• Rural health workers in developing countries need support to stay

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• Trust decides against legal action to force girl to receive heart transplant

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• Smoking bans in public places may reduce use of cannabis in Europe

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• Washington follows Oregon to legalise physician assisted suicide

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• Credit contraction offers opportunity to close gaps in health inequities

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• Global action needed to find alternatives to DDT in fight against malaria

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• New malaria drugs need subsidy, study finds

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• Considering culture provides a “window” that can help make human rights projects a success

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Pipe dreamer

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Observations

• Adverse reactions

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Analysis

• German health care: a bit of Bismarck plus more science

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Research

• Counselling for burnout in Norwegian doctors: one year cohort study

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• Alcohol consumption and alcohol counselling behaviour among US medical students: cohort study

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• Five year outcomes in a cohort study of physicians treated for substance use disorders in the United States

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• Characteristics and outcomes of doctors in a substance dependence monitoring programme in Canada: prospective descriptive study

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Clinical Review

• Statin induced myopathy

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Practice

• Aspirin in type 2 diabetes: is there any evidence base?

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• Investigating the hoarse voice

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• Advanced glaucomatous visual loss and oral steroids

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Obituaries

• Michael Crichton

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• Edward John Walter Bowie

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• Peter John Dennis

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• John Alexander Dew

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• Robert Henry Palmer Fitzpatrick

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• William Foster

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• Jack Elius Miller

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Views & Reviews

• Let us see the medical records of future world leaders

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• Hold the carrots

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• And for my next trick

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• Murder most ordinary

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• The Surgeons

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• Darkness falls

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Endgames

• An interesting pathological specimen at delivery

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• Relative risk

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• Risk factors

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• Sudden onset of headache and recent breathlessness

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• A 6 30 pm appointment

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• Closing the door after the horse has bolted: a new red flag for GPs?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1427 (Published 12 November 2008)

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