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This week's Editorials

Out of hours
Brian Hurwitz
BMJ  1994;309:1593-1594
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Fire retardants, biocides, plasticisers, and sudden infant deaths
P J Fleming, M Cooke, S M Chantler, J Golding
BMJ  1994;309:1594-1596
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Internal market rules OK
Julian Le Grand
BMJ  1994;309:1596-1597
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Questioning academic integrity
Richard Smith
BMJ  1994;309:1597-1598
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This week's Letters

Medicine's core values
John P Bunker
BMJ  1994;309:1657
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Both knowledge and compassion are needed
Stephen Browne
BMJ  1994;309:1657
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Profession should not have to make decisions concerning rationing
John Gould
BMJ  1994;309:1657
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The consultation is foundation stone of medicine
D Syme
BMJ  1994;309:1657-1658
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Are based on Christian ethics
P A Wilkinson, Mark Houghton
BMJ  1994;309:1658
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Profession needs to open itself up
R Muir
BMJ  1994;309:1658
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Should include respect
Valerie Iles
BMJ  1994;309:1658
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Statement of intent needed
J S Hopkins
BMJ  1994;309:1658
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The right to speak out
A K Thould
BMJ  1994;309:1658-1659
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Unanimity in the profession
Richard J Lilford
BMJ  1994;309:1659
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Any academy should stay away from realpolitik
Tony Keable-Elliott
BMJ  1994;309:1659
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The future of public health
Andrew Smith
BMJ  1994;309:1659
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Evidence based public health
Ian Roberts
BMJ  1994;309:1659
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Forget the old days of medical officers of health
Rachel Jewkes
BMJ  1994;309:1659-1660
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Eradicating gonorrhoea
D P Murray
BMJ  1994;309:1660
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More is needed than just treatment
A A Opaneye
BMJ  1994;309:1660
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Open access for screening is vital
John Sweeney, Greta Forster, Beng Tin Goh
BMJ  1994;309:1660
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Initial management of suspected meningococcal infection
Keith Cartwright, Mike Levin, Norman Begg
BMJ  1994;309:1660-1661
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Chief medical officer's guidelines are right
A L Wood, S J O'Brien, A M Geddes
BMJ  1994;309:1661
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On the spot treatment needed
F A I Riordan, O Marzouk, A P J Thomson, J A Sills, C A Hart
BMJ  1994;309:1661
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Authors' reply
C S Nanayakkara, R Cox
BMJ  1994;309:1661-1662
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Risk factors for breast cancer
David Torgerson
BMJ  1994;309:1662
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Pollutants and pesticides may be important
Peter J Lewis
BMJ  1994;309:1662
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Mammography after treatment for breast cancer
S J A Powis
BMJ  1994;309:1662
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Author's reply
Eva Grunfeld
BMJ  1994;309:1662
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Medical staffing in general hospitals
Rajan Madhok
BMJ  1994;309:1662-1663
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Purchasing vascular services
M R Tyrrell, Y P Panayiotopoulos, P R Taylor
BMJ  1994;309:1663
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The inverse pay law
E E J Martin
BMJ  1994;309:1663
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Rural general practitioners and out of hours cover
Martin Lawrence
BMJ  1994;309:1663
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New scheme is ill conceived
H C Robinson
BMJ  1994;309:1663
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This week's News

Correction
BMJ  1994;309:1599-1600
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Scottish death rates published with health warning
Luisa Dillner
BMJ  1994;309:1599-1600
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Headlines
BMJ  1994;309:1600
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Consultants consider sanctions over local pay
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1994;309:1600-1601
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Rwanda counts the cost of atrocities
Claudia Court
BMJ  1994;309:1601
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Back treatment needs revolution, says report
Kwame McKenzie, Fred B Charatan
BMJ  1994;309:1602
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Redundancy process was flawed, admits trust
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1994;309:1602
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Judge blocks Oregon's assisted suicide measure
Fred B Charatan
BMJ  1994;309:1603
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Sydney surgeon accused of HIV transfer
Christopher Zinn
BMJ  1994;309:1603
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Surgeon general resigns in masturbation row
John Roberts
BMJ  1994;309:1604
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The end of doctors, or the beginning of accountability?
Jane Smith
BMJ  1994;309:1604
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This week's General practice

Organisation of primary care services outside normal working hours
Lesley Hallam, David Cragg
BMJ  1994;309:1621-1623
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Out of hours service: the Danish solution examined
Frede Olesen, Jacqueline V Jolleys
BMJ  1994;309:1624-1626
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Out of hours primary care centres: characteristics of those attending and declining to attend
David K Cragg, Stephen M Campbell, Martin O Roland
BMJ  1994;309:1627-1629
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Quality standards for deputising services
David Cragg, Lesley Hallam
BMJ  1994;309:1630
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This week's Soundings

Put a social worker in charge
Colin Douglas
BMJ  1994;309:1665
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Slide rules
Bernard Dixon
BMJ  1994;309:1665
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This week's Personal views

Malaria revisited
Helen Minnis
BMJ  1994;309:1666
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Waiting for Alex
James Rankine
BMJ  1994;309:1666-1667
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This week's Medicine and books

The Death of Humane Medicine
Michael Modell
BMJ  1994;309:1668
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Preventionitis: The Exaggerated Claims of Health Promotion
George Davey Smith, Charlie Davison
BMJ  1994;309:1668-1669
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Challenging Medicine
Donald L Madison
BMJ  1994;309:1669
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This week's Education and debate

Recent Advances: Cardiology II: Treatment of heart failure and atrial fibrillation and arrhythmias
John McMurray, Andrew Rankin
BMJ  1994;309:1631-1635
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The World Health Organisation: WHO at country level -- a little impact, no strategy
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  1994;309:1636-1639
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The rise of Stalinism in the NHS
Richard Smith
BMJ  1994;309:1640
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Secrecy in the NHS
Naomi Craft
BMJ  1994;309:1640-1643
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Gagging public health doctors
Sally Sheard
BMJ  1994;309:1643-1644
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An unfree NHS and medical press in an unfree society
Richard Smith
BMJ  1994;309:1644-1645
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Controversies in Management: Medical treatment works for those with clear diagnosis
R C Spiller
BMJ  1994;309:1646-1647
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Controversies in Management: Psychological treatment is essential for some
Francis Creed
BMJ  1994;309:1647-1648
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ABC of Breast Diseases: Psychological aspects
P Maguire
BMJ  1994;309:1649-1652
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Management for Doctors: Effective top teams: luxury or necessity?
Andrew Kakabadse, Hugh Smyllie
BMJ  1994;309:1653-1654
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1994;309:1670
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1994;309:1619
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Universally challenged?
Abigail Seltzer
BMJ  1994;309:1667
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Framework launched for GP fundholding • BMA publishes code on hepatitis B • NHS trust boards are on Nolan agenda • GPs organise commissioning conference
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1994;309:1664
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This week's Obituaries

BMJ  1994;309:1655-1656
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This week's Papers

Heart muscle disease related to HIV infection: prognostic implications
Peter F Currie, Ashok J Jacob, Angus R Foreman, Robert A Elton, Ray P Brettle, Nicholas A Boon
BMJ  1994;309:1605-1607
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Role of glycaemic control in development of microalbuminuria in patients with insulin dependent diabetes
J K Powrie, G F Watts, J N Ingham, N A Taub, P J Talmud, K M Shaw
BMJ  1994;309:1608-1612
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Population based survival rates for childhood cancer in Britain, 1980-91
C A Stiller
BMJ  1994;309:1612-1616
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Left ventricular mass in normotensive subjects with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
Anand K Saggar-Malik, Constantinos G Missouris, Jaswinder S Gill, Donald R J Singer, Nirmala D Markandu, Graham A MacGregor
BMJ  1994;309:1617-1618
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Do asthmatic patients correctly record home spirometry measurements?
P J Chowienczyk, D H Parkin, C P Lawson, G M Cochrane
BMJ  1994;309:1618
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Pertussis immunisation of children with histories of neurological problems
D N Baxter
BMJ  1994;309:1619
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Drug Points: Arthralgias and omeparzole
M Beutler, K Hartmann, M Kuhn, J Gartmann
BMJ  1994;309:1620
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Drug points: Anisocoria associated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
J Barrett
BMJ  1994;309:1620
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Drug points: Parotitis induced by chlormethiazole
X Bosch, M Sans, F Martinez-Orozco, A Urbano-Marquez
BMJ  1994;309:1620
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Drug points: Erythromycin deafness and cimetidine treatment
N Mogford, A Pallett, C George
BMJ  1994;309:1620
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