This week's This week in the BMJ

	Chance of new renal scars in children under 4 years is small [Full text] FREE

	Optimal fluid loading cuts hospital stay in patients having hip surgery [Full text] FREE

	Weight loss leads to regression of left ventricular hypertrophy [Full text] FREE

	Medical students learn clinical skills as well in general practice as in hospital [Full text] FREE

	To manage psychological morbidity students need to learn psychiatry early [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The oesophageal Doppler monitor
	Tong Joo Gan, Joseph E Arrowsmith
	BMJ  1997;315:893-894 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
	Florence Levy
	BMJ  1997;315:894-895 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	France seeks to curb health costs by fining doctors
	Jennifer Dixon
	BMJ  1997;315:895-896 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An inspectorate for the health service?
	John Oldham
	BMJ  1997;315:896-897 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Every system is designed to get the results it gets
	Gerald T O'Connor
	BMJ  1997;315:897-898 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Graded exercise in chronic fatigue syndrome
	Charles Shepherd, Anne Macintyre, Alan J Franklin, Mike Sadler, Ellen M Goudsmit, Peter D White, Kathy Y Fulcher
	BMJ  1997;315:947 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic fatigue syndrome in children
	E G Dowsett, Jane Colby, Gill Jacobs, Melanie Hume
	BMJ  1997;315:949 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Special hospitals
	Jeremy Kenney-Herbert, Martin Humphreys, Annie Bartlett
	BMJ  1997;315:949-950 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Summative assessment compounds workload for MRCGP examination
	T P Cunliffe
	BMJ  1997;315:950 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inequality in funding for AIDS across England threatens regional services
	Mark A Bellis, Joanne McCullagh, Roderick Thomson, David Regan, Qutub Syed, Terry Kelly
	BMJ  1997;315:950-951 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New combined hepatitis A and B vaccine
	Martin Dedicoat, Christopher J Ellis
	BMJ  1997;315:951 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Requesting necropsies
	Teifion Davies, Kamlesh Khunti, Glenn Matfin, Harold M Adelman, Willard S Harris
	BMJ  1997;315:951 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future of healthcare systems
	Peter Bundred, lain Buchan, Jonathan Shapiro, Philip Milner, K Walshe, Graham Wynyard, A Lipp, R Milne
	BMJ  1997;315:952-953 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths from cervical cancer began falling before screening programmes were established
	A E Raffle
	BMJ  1997;315:953-954 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors should beware of asking for too high a salary
	Richard Baker
	BMJ  1997;315:954 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ apologises to cats everywhere
	Alison House, Allan House
	BMJ  1997;315:954 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Guidelines warn psychiatrists about memory recovery techniques
	Daloni Carlisle
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA calls for changes to legal aid system
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

	US doctors and nurses clash over roles
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

	London councils fail asylum seekers
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

	New neonatal screen will pick up 15 more diseases
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

	Call for routine cystic fibrosis screening
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

	HIV treatment in children brought into line with that in adults
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

	Radiotherapy plus chemotherapy is best for breast cancer
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA examines options for funding the NHS
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS faces hard choices
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

	Smoky nightclub discriminated against woman with asthma
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

	Wages to double for Romanian doctors
	Tudor Toma
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

	Inquiry into lung transplant fiasco in Quebec
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;315:899-904 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Epilepsy in childhood
	B G R Neville
	BMJ  1997;315:924-930 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of palliative care: Breathlessness, cough, and other respiratory problems
	Carol L Davis
	BMJ  1997;315:931-934 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Can students learn clinical method in general practice? A randomised crossover trial based on objective structured clinical examinations
	Elizabeth Murray, Brian Jolly, Michael Modell
	BMJ  1997;315:920-923 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Give a dog a bad name
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1997;315:957 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	A year in management
	Richard Ayres
	BMJ  1997;315:957-958 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	It's the PITS—a worthwhile extra for doctors in training
	Una M Macfadyen, Annette Greenwood
	BMJ  1997;315:958 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	August bestsellers: BMJ Bookshop
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Current Techniques in Surgery. Open Repair of Inguinal Hernia (Adult), by Ed Michael Edwards • Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. A Multi-media Step-by-step Approach to Surgical Procedures, by Ed Michael Edwards
	Gordon L Carlson, Sir Miles Irving
	BMJ  1997;315:959 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Cot Death Cover-Up?, by Jim Sprott
	Frederik A:de Wolff
	BMJ  1997;315:959 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Why is Sweden rethinking its NHS style reforms?
	Margaret Whitehead, Rolf Å Gustafsson, Finn Diderichsen
	BMJ  1997;315:935-939 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal paper: Risk language and dialects
	Sir Kenneth C Calman, Geoff Royston
	BMJ  1997;315:939-942 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An attempt to save money by using mandatory practice guidelines in france
	Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Cyrille Colin, Claudine Blum-Boisgard
	BMJ  1997;315:943-946 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:960 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Any questions: Does laser treatment offer a permanent cure for facial hirsutism in women?
	Julian H Barth
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An influential doctor: Stony dullness
	Ian D Conacher
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A quarter centenary: A full man
	C S Breathnach
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word...: Fingerprints
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: What's a parameter?
	Robert Burchfield
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Bone density and risk of hip fracture in men and women: cross sectional analysis
	BMJ  1997;315:916 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to read a paper: Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests
	BMJ  1997;315:942 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Are part time doctors better doctors?
	Helen Gibson
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Apologies to the secretariat of the Joint Committee on Postgraduate ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: One possible course of action for doctors discriminated against on ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Changing doctors' behaviour: fine them, or get them to improve their processes?
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA says that NHS crisis has started • Casualty departments should open 24 hours • BMA proposes strategy for after the internal market
	BMJ  1997;315:956 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Roger Michael Hardisty
	BMJ  1997;315:955 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	New renal scarring in children who at age 3 and 4 years had had normal scans with dimercaptosuccinic acid: follow up study
	Sue J Vernon, Malcolm G Coulthard, Heather J Lambert, Michael J Keir, John N S Matthews
	BMJ  1997;315:905-908 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Intraoperative intravascular volume optimisation and length of hospital stay after repair of proximal femoral fracture: randomised controlled trial
	Susan Sinclair, Sally James, Mervyn Singer
	BMJ  1997;315:909-912 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effects of obesity and weight loss on left ventricular mass and relative wall thickness: survey and intervention study
	Kristjan Karason, Ingemar Wallentin, Bo Larsson, Lars Sjöström
	BMJ  1997;315:912-916 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of medical school teaching on preregistration house officers' confidence in assessing and managing common psychological morbidity: three centre study
	Chris Williams, John Milton, Paul Strickland, Nick Ardagh-Walter, John Knapp, Simon Wilson, Peter Trigwell, Eleanor Feldman, A C P Sims
	BMJ  1997;315:917-918 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Occurrence of renal scars in children after their first referral for urinary tract infection
	Malcolm G Coulthard, Heather J Lambert, Michael J Keir
	BMJ  1997;315:918-919 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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