Are consultants accountable?
	P Kennedy
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1566 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Time to scrap creatinine clearance?
	R Gabriel
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1568 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effects of breast conservation on psychological morbidity.
	P C Milner, J P Nicholl
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1568-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Respiratory symptoms and bronchial reactivity.
	J B Howell, W E Waters
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1568-1569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1568-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Whooping cough immunisation for children with cerebral irritation or damage in the neonatal period.
	D Elliman
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1569 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Confusion after admission to hospital in elderly patients using benzodiazepines.
	C E Daman Willems, M J Dillon
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1569-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Randomised trial of treatment of hypertension in elderly patients in primary care.
	M McCarthy
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1570, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1570-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blood cyclosporin concentrations and renal allograft dysfunction.
	A De Vecchi, V E Rosso di San Secondo
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1570-1571, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1570-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prevalence of antibody to poliovirus.
	M S Rooney, P V Coyle, J H Connolly
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1571, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1571 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Opposition to divulging patient information.
	S Richardson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1572-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Urinary incontinence after stroke
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1524, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1524-a [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Optimising antiemesis in cancer chemotherapy: efficacy of continuous versus intermittent infusion of high dose metoclopramide in emesis induced by cisplatin
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1540-a [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Articles

This week's Articles

	NEWS AND NOTES
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1573-1577, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1573 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	OBITUARY
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1578-1581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1578 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1562-1564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1562 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	What is a good GP?
	J B O'Donovan
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1566-1567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1566-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What is a good GP?
	Nigel Higson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1567 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What is a good GP?
	A P Joseph
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1567-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Procedures for obtaining informed consent
	R R H Lovell
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1567-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Procedures for obtaining informed consent
	R H Nicholson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1567-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Procedures for obtaining informed consent: Authors' reply
	R J Simes, M H N Tattersall
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1567-1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1567-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Relapse of duodenal ulcer
	Rory McCloy
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1569-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Relapse of duodenal ulcer: Author's reply
	Paul Miller
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1569-1570, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1569-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Relapse of duodenal ulcer
	Bruno J Salena, Richard H Hunt
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1570, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1570 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assessment of non-mydriatic photography in detection of diabetic retinopathy
	Robert Williams, Stephen Nussey, Graham Thompson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1571, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1571-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assessment of non-mydriatic photography in detection of diabetic retinopathy
	Hung Cheng, Suzette Franklin
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1571-1572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1571-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assessment of non-mydriatic photography in detection of diabetic retinopathy
	R E J Ryder, S Young, T M Hayes
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1572 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Academic boycotts of South Africans
	Naomi Richman, Doris Hollander, Nigel Leigh, David Bell, A Bailey, J Schlicht, R Levy, Ricardo Araya
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1572-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Academic boycotts of South Africans
	S K Morcos, P B Anderson, G Ravichandran
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1572-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Medical Practice

This week's Medical Practice

	Negligence through loss of chance
	Clare Dyer
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1560-1561, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1560 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1561, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1561 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	Ross Kerridge
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1565 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice Observed

This week's Practice Observed

	Doctors as nutrition educators?: Part IV
	Margaret B Clark, Elizabeth M Evans, Margaret B Hamilton-Smith
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1541-1544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1541-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Primary care in the inner cities.
	J R Butler
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1519-1520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1519 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Immunohistochemistry in lymphoma diagnosis.
	P A Hall
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1520-1521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1520 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reproduction and work.
	W R Lee, E C McCloy
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1521-1522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1521 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Man bites dog.
	B Kirkpatrick, R Wise
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1522-1523, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1522 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Acyclovir update.
	D J Jeffries
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1523, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1523 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The debasing of medicine in the Soviet Union.
	C White
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1524, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1524 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Imaging thrombus with radiolabelled monoclonal antibody to platelets.
	A M Peters, J P Lavender, S G Needham, I Loutfi, D Snook, A A Epenetos, P Lumley, R J Keery, N Hogg
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1525-1527, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1525 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cough response to citric acid aerosol in occasional smokers.
	J C Pounsford, K B Saunders
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1528, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1528 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Oral acyclovir in acute herpes zoster.
	M W McKendrick, J I McGill, J E White, M J Wood
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1529-1532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1529 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Chemoprophylaxis with oral amoxycillin against bacterial endocarditis: when should second doses be administered after dentistry?
	C R Kumana, K K Chau, P Y Chau, M Kou, I Lauder
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1532-1534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1532 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Role of vagal neuropathy in the hyponatraemia of alcoholic cirrhosis.
	G Decaux, P Cauchie, A Soupart, M Kruger, F Delwiche
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1534-1536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1534 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effectiveness of intravenous acyclovir in immunocompetent patient with herpes zoster encephalitis.
	M K Whyte, P W Ind
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1536-1537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1536 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Resolution of diabetic cheiroarthropathy.
	D M Lister, R A Graham-Brown, A C Burden
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1537 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Alveolitis and haemolytic anaemia induced by azapropazone.
	M K Albazzaz, J E Harvey, J N Hoffman, J A Siddorn
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1537-1538, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1537-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bronchoconstriction induced by nebulised ipratropium bromide: relation to the bromide ion.
	P Rafferty, R Beasley, P H Howarth, J S Mann, S T Holgate
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1538-1539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1538 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endocarditis prophylaxis: do patients remember advice and know what to do?
	D W Pitcher, M Papouchado, K S Channer, M A James
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1539-1540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1539 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prevention of menstrual migraine by percutaneous oestradiol.
	B de Lignières, M Vincens, P Mauvais-Jarvis, J L Mas, P J Touboul, M G Bousser
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1540 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What is a good GP?
	G Jackson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1541-1542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1541 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Value of case discussion groups in vocational training.
	P A Sackin
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1543-1544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1543 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Patient load and medical staffing in adult dialysis units in the United Kingdom.
	W K Stewart, L W Fleming
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1545-1548, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1545 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of common minor ailments.
	C W Howden
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1549-1550, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1549 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The abnormal cervical smear.
	A Singer
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1551-1556, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1551 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Focal migraine and pregnancy.
	G D Wright, M K Patel
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1557-1558, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1557 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An assessment of the preregistration year experience.
	J E Elizabeth, S Hughes
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1559, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1559 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cost of anaesthetic drugs and clinical budgeting.
	J R Lethbridge, J S Walker
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1587-1588, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1587 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Supplement

This week's Supplement

	The Week
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1582 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMA is clandestine closed Mafia, claims MP
	John Warden
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1583 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the CCHMS: Clinicians crucial, says Sir Roy Griffiths
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1584-1586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1584 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health authorities warn on costs of manpower proposals
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1586 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Association Notice: East Norfolk and Norwich Division
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1986;293:1586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1586-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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