This week's This week in the BMJ

	It's all right to get up late [Full text] FREE

	A Cinnamon Sedge is better than a Black Gnat [Full text] FREE

	Superstition increases Japanese health costs [Full text] FREE

	Sweets in moderation may be good for you [Full text] FREE

	Grandmothers prevent unnecessary hospital attendance [Full text] FREE

	Socioeconomic status affects the health of pets [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Can medicine prevent war?
	Salim Yusuf, Sonia Anand, Graeme MacQueen
	BMJ  1998;317:1669-1670 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reinventing doctors
	Cyril Chantler
	BMJ  1998;317:1670-1671 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Socioeconomic differentials in the mortality of pets
	George Davey Smith, Brenda Bonnett
	BMJ  1998;317:1671-1673 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Snapshots from the decade of the brain
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  1998;317:1673 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"No longer Gage": an iron bar through the head
	Kieran O'Driscoll, John Paul Leach
	BMJ  1998;317:1673-1674 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ bans anniversaries
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:1674 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	1755 and all that: a historical primer of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
	Paul Brown, Raymond Bradley
	BMJ  1998;317:1688-1692 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Snapshots from the decade of the brain: Brainy mind
	Richard Gregory
	BMJ  1998;317:1693-1695 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The consciousness of sight
	Adam Zeman
	BMJ  1998;317:1696-1697 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Brain drugs of the future
	Susan Greenfield
	BMJ  1998;317:1698-1701 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Differences in mental abilities
	Ian J Deary
	BMJ  1998;317:1701-1703 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The brain, circadian rhythms, and clock genes
	Michael Hastings
	BMJ  1998;317:1704-1707 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Neurogenetic determinism and the new euphenics
	Steven P R Rose
	BMJ  1998;317:1707-1708 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The new Victorians: community care in the 1990s
	Jill Chaloner
	BMJ  1998;317:1738 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Will you present the prizes?
	Alan Craft
	BMJ  1998;317:1739 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	My cancer and the magic bullet
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  1998;317:1739 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the other side
	Francesca Signore
	BMJ  1998;317:1741 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Boom ditty boom ditty boom ditty boom (goodness gracious me)
	David A Sandler
	BMJ  1998;317:1742 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	An international work exchange: better than a midlife crisis
	Douglas T Bridge, James Gilbert
	BMJ  1998;317:1709-1710 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Only if she has a fishing rod!
	Raymond Towey, Ernestina Kimaro
	BMJ  1998;317:1711 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Apgar scores for dads
	Howard J Bennett
	BMJ  1998;317:1712 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	De futuro urbanorum
	R E Williams
	BMJ  1998;317:1713 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Alastair MacIntosh MacLachlainn (1892-1959): an unusual career
	John Cunningham Johnson
	BMJ  1998;317:1714-1715 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lessons from Whitehall
	Kenneth Calman
	BMJ  1998;317:1718-1720 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The accelerating pace of change
	James Willis
	BMJ  1998;317:1731-1732 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Favourite prayers: The physician's prayer
	BMJ  1998;317:1687 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Favourite prayers:
	BMJ  1998;317:1707 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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	BMJ  1998;317:1707 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Favourite prayers: The prayer of the oppressed
	BMJ  1998;317:1731 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Favourite prayers: The ship
	BMJ  1998;317:1731 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What's in a name?
	Tim White, Christopher W Oliver
	BMJ  1998;317:1731 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A Christmas carol
	Stephanie Davies
	BMJ  1998;317:1732 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Establishing educational needs in a new organisation
	Tim Wilson, Fran Butler, Marion Watson
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The apparent complexity of combining research training with specialist registrar ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Many locum jobs in general practice are short term, and ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Surgeons in the United States are generally trained in less ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

XMAS

This week's XMAS

	Shall I compare thee to a... • Big game animal? • Ship? • World Cup football team? • Navigator on a foggy night? • Car? • Spice? • Breakfast cereal?
	Imre Loefler, Imre Loefler, Matko Marusic, Clifton R Cleaveland, John Howells, Kamran Abbasi, Alan Searle
	BMJ  1998;317:1733 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	Nan West's murals in the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
	G D Schott
	BMJ  1998;317:1736 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coming to terms with death (six poems) • Charade • The challenge • The visit • Pain • Memories • The meeting
	Ian Roddie
	BMJ  1998;317:1737 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Prepare to be unsettled
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

SACRED COWS

This week's SACRED COWS

	Sacred cows: To the abattoir!
	BMJ  1998;317:1720 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Down with EBM!
	Nigel Molesworth
	BMJ  1998;317:1720-1721 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The need for political correctness in scientific writing
	James Le Fanu
	BMJ  1998;317:1721-1722 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Double bandaging of sprained ankles
	Sue Wilson, Matthew Cooke
	BMJ  1998;317:1722-1723 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A seamless service
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  1998;317:1723-1724 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The primacy of primary health care
	J R Hampton
	BMJ  1998;317:1724-1725 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical governance
	Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  1998;317:1725-1727 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The promise of the neurosciences
	A M Daniels
	BMJ  1998;317:1728 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical omniscience
	W G Pickering
	BMJ  1998;317:1729-1730 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors' autonomy
	David Orchard
	BMJ  1998;317:1730-1731 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

HOW TO DO IT

This week's HOW TO DO IT

	How to do it: Get your book published
	Mary Banks
	BMJ  1998;317:1715-1718 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Larks and owls and health, wealth, and wisdom
	Catharine Gale, Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  1998;317:1675-1677 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Does the fly matter? The CRACKPOT study in evidence based trout fishing
	B J Britton, J Grimley Evans, J M Potter
	BMJ  1998;317:1678-1680 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Influence of superstition on the date of hospital discharge and medical cost in Japan: retrospective and descriptive study
	Kenji Hira, Tsuguya Fukui, Akira Endoh, Mahbubur Rahman, Munetaka Maekawa
	BMJ  1998;317:1680-1683 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Life is sweet: candy consumption and longevity
	I-Min Lee, Ralph S Paffenbarger, Jr
	BMJ  1998;317:1683-1684 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Grandmothers' role in preventing unnecessary accident and emergency attendances: cohort study
	Emma Fergusson, Jun Li, Brent Taylor
	BMJ  1998;317:1685 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Xenotransmission of the socioeconomic gradient in health? A population based study
	Jamaluddin Moloo, Kirby L Jackson, Jennifer L Waller, Robert E McKeown, Cheryl L Addy, Steven P Cuffe, Carol Z Garrison
	BMJ  1998;317:1686 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Chewing gum for extradural haemorrhage
	Alastair Coutts
	BMJ  1998;317:1687 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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