This week's This week in the BMJ

	Sex may protect men against death (or dying may protect them against sex) [Full text] FREE

	Winter outbreaks of acute diarrhoea in France are not caused by shellfish consumption [Full text] FREE

	Soap opera characters have higher mortality than steeplejacks [Full text] FREE

	Neither doctors nor patients can assess distances [Full text] FREE

	Once over middle age some alcohol is good for you–and it doesn't matter what type [Full text] FREE

	Fat people are not more likely to take their shoes off before being weighed [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	An ethical code for everybody in health care
	Donald Berwick, Howard Hiatt, Penny Janeway, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:1633-1634 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Social suffering: relevance for doctors
	Solomon R Benatar
	BMJ  1997;315:1634-1635 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Choosing the best research design for each question
	David L Sackett, John E Wennberg
	BMJ  1997;315:1636 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Just what the doctor ordered—more alcohol and sex
	Anthony J Cleare, Simon C Wessely
	BMJ  1997;315:1637-1638 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Festive cheer for all?
	Ian R White, Martin McKee
	BMJ  1997;315:1638-1639 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New Labour, new NHS?
	Jennifer Dixon, Nicholas Mays
	BMJ  1997;315:1639-1640 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	One for the heart
	Richard Doll
	BMJ  1997;315:1664-1668 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What's in a Gnome?
	Peter J Scheuer
	BMJ  1997;315:1668 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	So many precious stories: a reflective narrative of patient based medicine in general practice, Christmas 1996
	Glyn Jones Elwyn
	BMJ  1997;315:1659-1663 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Do overweight people remove their shoes before being weighed by a doctor? Consecutive study of patients in general practice
	Timothy Harlow
	BMJ  1997;315:1663 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The session
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1997;315:1721 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	La salle de garde: bastion of the French lunch hour for junior doctors
	Bernard D Prendergast
	BMJ  1997;315:1708-1709 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The hidden delight of psoriasis
	Frans Meulenberg
	BMJ  1997;315:1709-1711 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gimme five—books, that is
	BMJ  1997;315:1712-1717 [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	A history
	BMJ  1997;315:1718 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Visual acuity
	BMJ  1997;315:1719 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A minimental status examination
	BMJ  1997;315:1719 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ rap
	BMJ  1997;315:1720 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Medicine as a profession: Hip, Hip, Hippocrates: extracts from The Hippocratic Doctor
	John Fabre
	BMJ  1997;315:1669-1670 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Swearing to care: the resurgence in medical oaths
	Brian Hurwitz, Ruth Richardson
	BMJ  1997;315:1671-1674 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Professionalism must be taught
	Sylvia R Cruess, Richard L Cruess
	BMJ  1997;315:1674-1677 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine needs its MI5
	Duncan Campbell
	BMJ  1997;315:1677-1680 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bmj and the 77 specialties of medicine
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:1680-1682 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How to do it: How to acquire a coat of arms
	John Thurston
	BMJ  1997;315:1682-1684 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices
	Ikechukwu Obialo Azuonye
	BMJ  1997;315:1685-1686 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	History: Two hundred years since Malthus
	John A Black
	BMJ  1997;315:1686-1689 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sailors and star-bursts, and the arrival of HIV
	Edward Hooper
	BMJ  1997;315:1689-1691 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The electronic future: What might an online scientific paper look like in five years' time? (Length—and other strengths)
	Lisa Bero
	BMJ  1997;315:1692 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	From snapshot to movie
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1997;315:1693 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Variation adds value to the author's logic
	Anne Dixon
	BMJ  1997;315:1693-1694 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Looking to the future: amazon.com and four trends
	Ronald E LaPorte, Akira Sekikawa, Deborah Aaron, Rimei Nishimura, Benjamin Acosta
	BMJ  1997;315:1694 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	It could fulfil our dreams
	Faith McLellan
	BMJ  1997;315:1695 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Papers" will still exist
	Peter Newmark, Vitek Tracz
	BMJ  1997;315:1695-1696 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Something for everyone
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:1696 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Illnesses and creativity: Byron's appetites, James Joyce's gut, and Melba's meals and mésalliances
	JH Baron
	BMJ  1997;315:1697-1703 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Ambivalence toward fatness and its origins
	Arthur Crisp
	BMJ  1997;315:1703 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How Renoir coped with rheumatoid arthritis
	Annelies Boonen, Jan van de Rest, Jan Dequeker, Sjef van der Linden
	BMJ  1997;315:1704-1708 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:1722 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

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

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Tackling the midlife crisis
	Carl Gray
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The flip side of the coin of life long learning ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Two important regulations finally attained the weight of parliamentary approval ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	From the deadly serious to the downright barmy
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Sex and death: are they related? Findings from the Caerphilly cohort study
	George Davey Smith, Stephen Frankel, John Yarnell
	BMJ  1997;315:1641-1644 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The earth may move, but let's keep our feet on the ground
	Matthew Hotopf, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  1997;315:1645 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk factors for winter outbreak of acute diarrhoea in France: case-control study
	Laurent Letrilliart, Jean-Claude Desenclos, Antoine Flahault
	BMJ  1997;315:1645-1649 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Death rates of characters in soap operas on British television: is a government health warning required?
	Tim Crayford, Richard Hooper, Sarah Evans
	BMJ  1997;315:1649-1652 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reliability of distance estimation by doctors and patients: cross sectional study
	Basil Sharrack, Richard A C Hughes
	BMJ  1997;315:1652-1654 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Births at Christmas are different: population based survey of 2 million deliveries
	Mads Melbye, Jan Wohlfahrt, Tine Westergaard, Anne Kristine Valeur Jensen, Anders Koch, Henrik Hjalgrim, Annemette Kristensen, Peter Aaby
	BMJ  1997;315:1654-1655 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Do you know your chocolates? Recognition survey among medical staff of various grades
	Fiona Cooke, Rhian Morse
	BMJ  1997;315:1655-1656 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Increasing handicaps in hospital medicine: two point cross sectional study of golfing activity among doctors
	John M Eagles, George B Rhind
	BMJ  1997;315:1656-1657 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The colon in medicine: nothing to do with the intestinal tract
	Hamish Cameron, Annette Robertson
	BMJ  1997;315:1657-1658 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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