14 October 2017(vol 359, issue 8125)

This Week

• A Big Sister society?

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4690 (Published 12 October 2017)

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• General practice threatens to withhold repeat prescriptions until patients have flu vaccine

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4682 (Published 10 October 2017)

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• Spending on junk food advertising is nearly 30 times what government spends on promoting healthy eating

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4677 (Published 11 October 2017)

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• Seven days in medicine: 4-10 October 2017

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4670 (Published 12 October 2017)

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• Sixty seconds on . . . concurrent surgery

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4667 (Published 11 October 2017)

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• Plastic surgeons report surge in reoperations for patients treated abroad

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4643 (Published 06 October 2017)

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• Quality of care is under threat, and services “straining at the seams,” warns CQC

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4672 (Published 10 October 2017)

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• Radiologist shortage leaves patient care at risk, warns royal college

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4683 (Published 11 October 2017)

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• Five minutes with . . . Nicola Strickland

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4675 (Published 11 October 2017)

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• Gun injuries cost US nearly $3bn a year in hospital charges

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4641 (Published 06 October 2017)

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• WHO advises blanket anti-worming treatment for children despite lack of benefit

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4589 (Published 04 October 2017)

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• Pneumonic plague outbreak hits cities in Madagascar

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4595 (Published 05 October 2017)

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• Data, data everywhere: the challenges of personalised medicine

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4546 (Published 11 October 2017)

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• Local, local, local: the regeneration project that puts the community in charge of its health

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4594 (Published 12 October 2017)

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• Tobacco giant wants to eliminate smoking . . .

  BMJ 2017; 358 :j4443 (Published 26 September 2017)

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• Mental health services for children fail to meet soaring demand

  BMJ 2017; 358 :j4254 (Published 29 September 2017)

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Research Update

• Concurrent bariatric operations and association with perioperative outcomes: registry based cohort study

  BMJ 2017; 358 :j4244 (Published 26 September 2017)

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• Comparison of postoperative outcomes among patients treated by male and female surgeons: a population based matched cohort study

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4366 (Published 10 October 2017)

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• Improving patient outcomes after surgery

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4580 (Published 10 October 2017)

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• Four study design principles for genetic investigations using next generation sequencing

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4069 (Published 12 October 2017)

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Comment

• Fear of missing out on conferences

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4515 (Published 09 October 2017)

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• #ILookLikeASurgeon: embracing diversity to improve patient outcomes

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4653 (Published 10 October 2017)

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• David Oliver: How much information should patients’ families expect on acute wards?

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4295 (Published 11 October 2017)

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• Challenges of incentivising patient centred care

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4532 (Published 06 October 2017)

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• Sharing resources online is central to medical research and teaching

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4597 (Published 06 October 2017)

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• Clinical peer review of GP referrals might be construed as peer pressure

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4598 (Published 09 October 2017)

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• There’s no such thing as an unnecessary referral

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4606 (Published 10 October 2017)

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• Outsourcing review of GP referrals to private companies: who ultimately gains?

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4607 (Published 11 October 2017)

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• Improving quality of life relies on valid outcome measures as well as drugs

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4623 (Published 12 October 2017)

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• Jonathan Alper

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4519 (Published 04 October 2017)

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• James Michael Butterfield Carr

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4477 (Published 03 October 2017)

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• William J B Cherry

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4479 (Published 03 October 2017)

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• Wilhelmina Lockwood

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4480 (Published 03 October 2017)

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• Alan John Sykes

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4481 (Published 03 October 2017)

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• Frances Mary White

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4495 (Published 03 October 2017)

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• Shigeaki Hinohara

  BMJ 2017; 358 :j3891 (Published 22 August 2017)

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Education

• Which pain medications are effective for sciatica (radicular leg pain)?

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4248 (Published 12 October 2017)

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• Safe handover

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4328 (Published 09 October 2017)

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• Acute constipation and vomiting with the “coffee bean” sign

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4414 (Published 12 October 2017)

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• Rash in the returning traveller

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4343 (Published 12 October 2017)

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• Bacteria for babies . . . and other stories

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4620 (Published 12 October 2017)

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Careers

• Allyson Pollock: Tackling risks and harms

  BMJ 2017; 359 :j4625 (Published 11 October 2017)

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