A New Year's resolution after a lost decade
	D J Weatherall
	BMJ  2003;327:1415-1416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1415 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Providing the world with clean water
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2003;327:1416-1418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1416 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical arithmetic
	Colin Currie
	BMJ  2003;327:1418-1419, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1418 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dignity is a useless concept
	Ruth Macklin
	BMJ  2003;327:1419-1420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1419 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

It's good to talk

This week's It's good to talk

	Would the NHS benefit from a single, identifiable leader? An email conversation
	Don Berwick, Chris Ham, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;327:1421-1424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1421 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The power of stories over statistics
	Thomas B Newman
	BMJ  2003;327:1424-1427, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1424 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The midwife, the coincidence, and the hypothesis
	David Barker
	BMJ  2003;327:1428-1430, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1428 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thoughts for new medical students at a new medical school
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;327:1430-1433, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1430 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: More advice]

Misplaced trust

This week's Misplaced trust

	SOAP OPERA: Christmas with the Millstones
	Nicola Sharp
	BMJ  2003;327:1434-1435, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1434 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Snakes, ladders, and spin

This week's Snakes, ladders, and spin

	How to make a silk purse from a sow's ear—a comprehensive review of strategies to optimise data for corrupt managers and incompetent clinicians
	David Pitches, Amanda Burls, Anne Fry-Smith
	BMJ  2003;327:1436-1439, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1436 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Get Peered!
	Tom Jefferson, Karen Shashok, Elizabeth Wager
	BMJ  2003;327:1439-1441, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1439 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	HARLOT plc: an amalgamation of the world's two oldest professions
	David L Sackett, Andrew D Oxman
	BMJ  2003;327:1442-1445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1442 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How to make a compelling submission to NICE: tips for sponsoring organisations
	Amanda Burls, Josie Sandercock
	BMJ  2003;327:1446-1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1446 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ward round

This week's Ward round

	The psychiatric protection order for the "battered mental patient"
	Thomas Szasz
	BMJ  2003;327:1449-1451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1449 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Of Struldbruggs, sugar, and gatekeepers: a tale of our times
	David Kerr
	BMJ  2003;327:1451-1453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1451 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Audit of soap usage by a primary care team
	Alan Stone
	BMJ  2003;327:1453-1454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1453 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug point: Possible interaction between warfarin and cranberry juice
	Rafe Suvarna, Munir Pirmohamed, Leigh Henderson
	BMJ  2003;327:1454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1454 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Hazardous journeys

This week's Hazardous journeys

	Car colour and risk of car crash injury: population based case control study
	S Furness, J Connor, E Robinson, R Norton, S Ameratunga, R Jackson
	BMJ  2003;327:1455-1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1455 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Depiction of elderly and disabled people on road traffic signs: international comparison
	Richard P Gale, Christopher P Gale, T A Roper, Graham P Mulley
	BMJ  2003;327:1456-1457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1456 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How long did their hearts go on? A Titanic study
	James A Hanley, Elizabeth Turner, Carine Bellera, Dana Teltsch
	BMJ  2003;327:1457-1458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1457 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
	Gordon C S Smith, Jill P Pell
	BMJ  2003;327:1459-1461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1459 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine in Egypt at the time of Napoleon Bonaparte
	Thomas G Russell, Terence M Russell
	BMJ  2003;327:1461-1464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1461 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

History and mystery

This week's History and mystery

	Retroactive prayer: a preposterous hypothesis?
	Brian Olshansky, Larry Dossey
	BMJ  2003;327:1465-1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1465 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

	Love and death in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde—an epic anticholinergic crisis
	Gunther Weitz
	BMJ  2003;327:1469-1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1469 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Signs of love, not a love potion
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2003;327:1471-1472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1471 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

This sporting life

This week's This sporting life

	Football position and atopy—both subject to the birth order effect?
	Michael R Perkin
	BMJ  2003;327:1473-1474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1473 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Referee's half-time analysis
	Ian Forgacs
	BMJ  2003;327:1474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1474 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: it's all over
	Hazel Inskip
	BMJ  2003;327:1474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1474-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Australia versus New Zealand: an emotional meta-analysis of rugby
	Jonathan Silberberg, John Wlodarczyk
	BMJ  2003;327:1475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1475 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Why running is not for people
	Peter Arnold
	BMJ  2003;327:1476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1476 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A gout lifestyle?
	BMJ  2003;327:1433, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1433 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas quiz
	BMJ  2003;327:1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1448 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Telemedicine
	John Carter, Chris Bridle
	BMJ  2003;327:1458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1458 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Room for improvement
	R D Price, H E Lewis, D J Whitby
	BMJ  2003;327:1464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1464 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Pump it up
	Dinesh Selvarajah
	BMJ  2003;327:1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1468 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A Christmas visit
	Chris Thorpe
	BMJ  2003;327:1472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1472 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	All stitched up
	Richard Milton
	BMJ  2003;327:1476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1476-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BMJ USA

This week's BMJ USA

	Editor's choice: EtOH and the numbers
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2003;327:E262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.E262 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Editorial: Alcohol screening in primary care
	Evelyn P Whitlock
	BMJ  2003;327:E263-E264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.E263 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Letter: RAPID RESPONSES FROM BMJ.COM
	BMJ  2003;327:E265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.E265 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Letter: Letters
	James E Enstrom, Geoffrey C Kabat, Michael J Thun
	BMJ  2003;327:E266-E267, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.E266 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:E268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.E268 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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