Winning hearts and minds
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

	Chronic low back pain: surgery isn't conclusively better... [Full text]

	... and intensive rehabilitation is cheaper [Full text]

	Do tracheostomies sooner rather than later [Full text]

	Some British South Asians don't trust pills for diabetes [Full text]

	Feedback tool assessed junior doctors reliably [Full text]

	No need to pay if a drug doesn't work? [Full text]

Editorials

	Clinical leadership in the provision of hospital care
	Sisse Olsen, Graham Neale
	BMJ  2005;330:1219-1220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1219 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Surgery versus intensive rehabilitation programmes for chronic low back pain
	Bart W Koes
	BMJ  2005;330:1220-1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1220 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing knife crime
	Emma Hern, Will Glazebrook, Mike Beckett
	BMJ  2005;330:1221-1222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1221 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Next steps in trial registration
	Kamran Abbasi, Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2005;330:1222-1223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1222 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Excess coronary heart disease in South Asians in the United Kingdom
	Velmurugan C Kuppuswamy, Sandeep Gupta
	BMJ  2005;330:1223-1224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1223 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction: Analysis of evidence is incomplete and inaccurate
	John McMurray
	BMJ  2005;330:1269, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1269 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

	Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction: Results reflect different cardiovascular states in patients with types 1 and 2 diabetes
	Edmund J Lewis, on behalf of the Collaborative Study Group
	BMJ  2005;330:1269-1270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1269-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction: Direct comparative studies are needed
	Lionel H Opie
	BMJ  2005;330:1270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1270 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction: Cautions voiced are biologically credible
	Zaheer R Yousef, Francisco Leyva, Christopher Gibbs
	BMJ  2005;330:1270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1270-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction: Authors' reply
	Martin H Strauss, Subodh Verma
	BMJ  2005;330:1270-1271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1270-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details]

	Reducing mortality in myocardial infarction: Primary angioplasty has strong evidence base
	Michael P Pitt, Gordon Murray, James Beattie, Nadia El Gaylani
	BMJ  2005;330:1271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1271 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing mortality in myocardial infarction: Goal should be interhospital transfer for primary angioplasty
	Mario Ivanusa
	BMJ  2005;330:1271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1271-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing mortality in myocardial infarction: Experience in Cuba shows optimising thrombolysis may reduce death rates in poor countries
	Pedro O Ordúñez-García, Marcos Iraola-Ferrer, Yanelis La Rosa-Linares
	BMJ  2005;330:1271-1272, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1271-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Illness trajectories are also valuable in critical care
	Stephen J Streat
	BMJ  2005;330:1272, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1272 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Emergency endoscopy service could be provided
	David S Sanders, David P Hurlstone
	BMJ  2005;330:1272, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1272-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nature and doctors can be dangerous
	James N Hardy
	BMJ  2005;330:1272, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1272-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	UK and Korean teams refine techniques for human cloning
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:1225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1225 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;330:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1226 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Committee calls for more guidance on animal experiments
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2005;330:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1226-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	UK patients can refuse to let their data be shared across networks
	Michael Cross
	BMJ  2005;330:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1226-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Community care has led to loss of staff from psychiatric wards
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2005;330:1227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1227 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Four in five nurses on mental wards face violence
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2005;330:1227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1227-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cancer is diagnosed more quickly in patients who bypass GPs
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;330:1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1229-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	World Health Assembly votes not to destroy smallpox virus
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:1230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1230 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Pathologists' display of plant power wins at Chelsea
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:1230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1230-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Pfizer Australia is fined for misleading promotion of celecoxib
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2005;330:1230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1230-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	All IVF embryos should be checked for genetic defects, conference is told
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2005;330:1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1228 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF]

	Israel allows sex selection of embryos for non-medical reasons
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2005;330:1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1228-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF]

	New guide ranks success of IVF treatment centres
	Colleen Shannon
	BMJ  2005;330:1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1228-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK government to set up small claims scheme for medical mishaps
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1228-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF]

	Statins may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2005;330:1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1228-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK agency reports slight increase in radiation exposure
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;330:1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1229 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug chiefs ponder how to improve industry's reputation
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2005;330:1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1229-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF]

	Revalidation must serve doctors and the public
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1229-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Health assembly adopts new regulations for tackling emergencies
	Paul Ress
	BMJ  2005;330:1230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1230-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Older patients are at smaller risk of opioid tolerance than younger patients
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;330:1230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1230-d [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;330:1231-1232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1231 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Perceptions and experiences of taking oral hypoglycaemic agents among people of Pakistani and Indian origin: qualitative study
	Julia Lawton, Naureen Ahmad, Nina Hallowell, Lisa Hanna, Margaret Douglas
	BMJ  2005;330:1247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38460.642789.E0, (Published 9 May 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Barriers to concordance with antidiabetic drugs—cultural differences or human nature?
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2005;330:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38464.595741.AE, (Published 9 May 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

	Use of SPRAT for peer review of paediatricians in training
	Julian C Archer, John Norcini, Helena A Davies
	BMJ  2005;330:1251-1253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38447.610451.8F, (Published 9 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Can poorly performing doctors blame their assessment tools?
	Richard Baker
	BMJ  2005;330:1254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38469.406597.0B, (Published 9 May 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Management of pregnancies with RhD alloimmunisation
	Sailesh Kumar, Fiona Regan
	BMJ  2005;330:1255-1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1255 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of conflict and disaster: Natural disasters
	Anthony D Redmond
	BMJ  2005;330:1259-1261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1259 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	No cure, no pay
	Claus Møldrup
	BMJ  2005;330:1262-1264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1262 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	GMC and the future of revalidation: Patients, professionalism, and revalidation
	Donald Irvine
	BMJ  2005;330:1265-1268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1265 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and his Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
	Raj Persaud
	BMJ  2005;330:1275, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1275 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
	D B Double
	BMJ  2005;330:1276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1276 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind
	Iain McClure
	BMJ  2005;330:1276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1276-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Time to act against medical collusion in punitive amputations
	Adebayo Adejumo, Prisca Olabisi Adejumo
	BMJ  2005;330:1277, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1277 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: The quest for transparency
	Imre Loefler
	BMJ  2005;330:1277, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1277-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;330:1278, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1278 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Steroid injection is as successful as surgery for carpal tunnel at one year
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable delivery
	Michael Beeney
	BMJ  2005;330:1246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1246 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The treatment of inebriety
	BMJ  2005;330:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1250-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Sensible advice for disorders of the imagination
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;330:1264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1264 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ulysses syndrome
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  2005;330:1268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1268 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Principles for international registration of protocol information and results from human trials of health related interventions: Ottawa statement (part 1)
	BMJ  2005;330:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1258 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Two drug firms advertised to patients
	BMJ  2005;330:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1258-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	FDA warns about using antipsychotic drugs for dementia
	BMJ  2005;330:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1258-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	National survey of UK emergency endoscopy units
	BMJ  2005;330:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1258-c [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	What is expected from a clinical attaché and how can one make the most of a clinical attachment?
	Shaaz Mahboob
	BMJ  2005;330:s214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s214, (Published 28 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am interested in a career in academic intensive care. I know how to train in intensive care medicine as a dual specialty, but how would I go about developing a research interest in this area and would a base specialty other than anaesthetics be a disadvantage?
	Gavin Perkins
	BMJ  2005;330:s214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s214-a, (Published 28 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am undecided between a career in obstetrics and gynaecology and one in genitourinary medicine. I have a clinical attachment in obstetrics and gynaecology and also a clinical assistant post in genitourinary medicine. What should I do?
	Alexander McMillan
	BMJ  2005;330:s214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s214-b, (Published 28 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;330:gp215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.sgp215, (Published 28 May 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;330:s215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s215, (Published 28 May 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ethics at the interface—private practice and the NHS
	Julie Sladden
	BMJ  2005;330:s215-s216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s215-a, (Published 28 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on the ball doctors
	BMJ  2005;330:s216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s216, (Published 28 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Moving home temporarily
	Catherine Diver
	BMJ  2005;330:s217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s217, (Published 28 May 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reduce the stress of relocation— delegate to a consultant
	Jenny Gee
	BMJ  2005;330:s217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s217-a, (Published 28 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Claiming expenses
	James Ward
	BMJ  2005;330:s218-s219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s218, (Published 28 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diploma in Mountain Medicine (DMM)
	Mike Brookes
	BMJ  2005;330:s219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s219, (Published 28 May 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to become a GPwSI in dermatology and minor surgery
	Evanthia Frangos
	BMJ  2005;330:gp220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.sgp220, (Published 28 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Crying wolf is a crying shame
	Nachiketa Sinha
	BMJ  2005;330:s220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s220, (Published 28 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Making a plan for the weekend
	O Khattak
	BMJ  2005;330:s220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s220-a, (Published 28 May 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Working as a pregnant junior doctor
	Eileen Brooks, Janet Patrick
	BMJ  2005;330:gp221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.sgp221, (Published 28 May 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is general practice family friendly?
	John Burscough
	BMJ  2005;330:gp221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.sgp221-a, (Published 28 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Creating a departmental handbook
	Beryl de Souza
	BMJ  2005;330:s221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s221, (Published 28 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A preregistration house officer and reigning world karate champion
	Katariina Jarvi
	BMJ  2005;330:s222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.s222, (Published 28 May 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Dennis Gath
	Michael Gelder
	BMJ  2005;330:1273, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1273 [Extract] [Full text]

	Margaret Winifred Anderson
	Margaret K Bancewicz
	BMJ  2005;330:1274, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1274 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Janet Queen ("Jenny") Ballantine (née Morton)
	John M Ballantine
	BMJ  2005;330:1274, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1274-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Edward Charles Arden Bott
	James Bevan
	BMJ  2005;330:1274, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1274-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Christopher Simmonds Gough
	Peter Doyle
	BMJ  2005;330:1274, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1274-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ian Alexander Porter
	Graeme Taylor
	BMJ  2005;330:1274, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1274-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Jean Mary Scott (née Lewis)
	William Scott
	BMJ  2005;330:1274, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1274-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Randomised controlled trial to compare surgical stabilisation of the lumbar spine with an intensive rehabilitation programme for patients with chronic low back pain: the MRC spine stabilisation trial
	Jeremy Fairbank, Helen Frost, James Wilson-MacDonald, Ly-Mee Yu, Karen Barker, Rory Collins, for the Spine Stabilisation Trial Group
	BMJ  2005;330:1233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38441.620417.8F, (Published 23 May 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra information] FREE

	Surgical stabilisation of the spine compared with a programme of intensive rehabilitation for the management of patients with chronic low back pain: cost utility analysis based on a randomised controlled trial
	Oliver Rivero-Arias, Helen Campbell, Alastair Gray, Jeremy Fairbank, Helen Frost, James Wilson-MacDonald, for the Spine Stabilisation Trial Group
	BMJ  2005;330:1239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38441.429618.8F, (Published 23 May 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details] FREE

	Systematic review and meta-analysis of studies of the timing of tracheostomy in adult patients undergoing artificial ventilation
	John Griffiths, Vicki S Barber, Lesley Morgan, J Duncan Young
	BMJ  2005;330:1243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38467.485671.E0, (Published 18 May 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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