Britain's gift: a "Medline" of synthesised evidence
	Richard Smith, Iain Chalmers
	BMJ  2001;323:1437-1438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1437 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Income, health, and the National Lottery
	Anthony Rodgers
	BMJ  2001;323:1438-1439, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1438 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Alcohol intake: measure for measure
	R E Ferner, Jacky Chambers
	BMJ  2001;323:1439-1440, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1439 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical oaths and declarations
	Kaji Sritharan, Georgina Russell, Zoe Fritz, Davina Wong, Matthew Rollin, Jake Dunning, Philip Morgan, Catherine Sheehan
	BMJ  2001;323:1440-1441, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1440 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Death in Hollywood
	George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2001;323:1441-1442, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1441 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Hot air?
	BMJ  2001;323:1449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1449 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fighting the Pirate King
	M G Jacoby
	BMJ  2001;323:1457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1457 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A salutary lesson: Be kind to your patients
	Alexander Fernandez
	BMJ  2001;323:1459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1459 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas presents and Christmas past
	Lucy F Pendered
	BMJ  2001;323:1463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1463 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Humbug
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2001;323:1466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1466 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Unanticipated transmissible Christmas presents
	T L Chambers
	BMJ  2001;323:1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1471 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Scott's parabola
	J W Scott
	BMJ  2001;323:1477, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1477 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: A Christmas quiz
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2001;323:1497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1497 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The BMJ takes reason's last step
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

COVER NOTE

This week's COVER NOTE

	BMJ  2001;323:1498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1498 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

PHOTOFINISH

This week's PHOTOFINISH

	BMJ  2001;323:1498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1498 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

LOOKING BACK

This week's LOOKING BACK

	Casting and drawing lots: a time honoured way of dealing with uncertainty and ensuring fairness
	William A Silverman, Iain Chalmers
	BMJ  2001;323:1467-1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1467 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Death and miasma in Victorian London: an obstinate belief
	Stephen Halliday
	BMJ  2001;323:1469-1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1469 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Postmortems on the kitchen table
	Arthur Hollman
	BMJ  2001;323:1472-1473, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1472 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The twenty-krone piece
	Frederick Treves
	BMJ  2001;323:1474-1475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1474 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One of the oldest cases of schizophrenia in Gogol's Diary of a Madman
	Eric Lewin Altschuler
	BMJ  2001;323:1475-1477, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1475 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christiaan Barnard: his first transplants and their impact on concepts of death
	Raymond Hoffenberg
	BMJ  2001;323:1478-1480, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1478 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

DREAM SCHOOLS

This week's DREAM SCHOOLS

	The Renaissance School of General Medicine
	E B Peile, G P Easton, S Olney
	BMJ  2001;323:1454-1455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1454 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra table and figure]

	The François Rabelais School of Medicine
	Jeremy Anderson
	BMJ  2001;323:1456-1457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1456 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Confucius School of Medicine: the way to great learning
	Cindy L K Lam
	BMJ  2001;323:1458-1459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1458 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BEYOND SCIENCE

This week's BEYOND SCIENCE

	The Hound of the Baskervilles effect: natural experiment on the influence of psychological stress on timing of death
	David P Phillips, George C Liu, Kennon Kwok, Jason R Jarvinen, Wei Zhang, Ian S Abramson
	BMJ  2001;323:1443-1446, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1443 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of rosary prayer and yoga mantras on autonomic cardiovascular rhythms: comparative study
	Luciano Bernardi, Peter Sleight, Gabriele Bandinelli, Simone Cencetti, Lamberto Fattorini, Johanna Wdowczyc-Szulc, Alfonso Lagi
	BMJ  2001;323:1446-1449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1446 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: randomised controlled trial
	Leonard Leibovici
	BMJ  2001;323:1450-1451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1450 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The suprascientific in clinical medicine: a challenge for Professor Know-All
	F I D Konotey-Ahulu
	BMJ  2001;323:1452-1453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1452 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

THINKING AHEAD

This week's THINKING AHEAD

	Dramaturgical study of meetings between general practitioners and representatives of pharmaceutical companies • Commentary: dramaturgical model gives valuable insight
	Maggie Somerset, Marjorie Weiss, Tom Fahey, Robert Mears
	BMJ  2001;323:1481-1484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1481 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further examples]

	The World Health Organization and the prevention of road injuries: phone book analysis
	Ian Roberts, Tessa Hosford, Phil Edwards
	BMJ  2001;323:1485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1485 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An inexpensive and edible aid for the diagnosis of puberty in the male: multispecies evaluation of an alternative orchidometer
	Poonam Bhalla, Sally, Pippa, Gareth Williams
	BMJ  2001;323:1486, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1486 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: pilot study]

PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED

This week's PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED

	The A to Z of authorship: analysis of influence of initial letter of surname on order of authorship
	Ruth Chambers, Elizabeth Boath, Steph Chambers
	BMJ  2001;323:1460-1461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1460 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Amount of research interest in rare and common neurological conditions: bibliometric study
	Rustam Al-Shahi, Robert G Will, Charles P Warlow
	BMJ  2001;323:1461-1462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1461 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Wantedmore answers than questions: literature review
	Anthony S David
	BMJ  2001;323:1462-1463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1462 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A practical guide to informed consent to treatment
	Andrew D Oxman, Iain Chalmers, David L Sackett
	BMJ  2001;323:1464-1466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1464 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: competing interests]

APPEARANCES ARE DECEPTIVE

This week's APPEARANCES ARE DECEPTIVE

	"Unwarranted survivals" and "anomalous deaths" from coronary heart disease: prospective survey of general population
	Alex McConnachie, Kate Hunt, Carol Emslie, Carole Hart, Graham Watt
	BMJ  2001;323:1487-1491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1487 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Longevity of screenwriters who win an academy award: longitudinal study
	Donald A Redelmeier, Sheldon M Singh
	BMJ  2001;323:1491-1496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1491 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	In grandfather's room
	A M Clarfield
	BMJ  2001;323:1496-1497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1496 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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