A time to die
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Stuttering can be treated by early intervention [Full text]

	Antenatal steroids reduce respiratory distress in babies [Full text]

	Antenatal steroids may have no long term side effects [Full text]

	Algorithm reduces antimicrobial prescriptions in urinary infections [Full text]

	Assisted dying: the debate goes on [Full text]

	Treat status epilepticus with benzodiazepine followed by phenytoin [Full text]

Editorials

	Giving steroids before elective caesarean section
	Philip J Steer
	BMJ  2005;331:645-646, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.645 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Safer prescribing for children
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2005;331:646-647, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.646 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Stopping routine vaccination for tuberculosis in schools
	Paul Fine
	BMJ  2005;331:647-648, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.647 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Japanese healthcare system
	Hideki Nomura, Takeo Nakayama
	BMJ  2005;331:648-649, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.648 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Series, PowerPoint slides, and folders now available on bmj.com
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2005;331:650, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.650 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Five futures for academic medicine: Future of academic medicine looks bleak
	E Malcolm Symonds, Sir Peter Bell, Jangu Banatvala
	BMJ  2005;331:694, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.694 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Five futures for academic medicine: Follow the money trail
	Mark G Perlroth
	BMJ  2005;331:694, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.694-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Five futures for academic medicine: Mutual respect is essential
	Manique Wijesinghe
	BMJ  2005;331:694-695, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.694-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Five futures for academic medicine: Wine presses of academia produce young wines that don't cellar well
	Roger K A Allen
	BMJ  2005;331:695, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.695 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Five futures for academic medicine: Specialised professional research system of "pure" medical science is needed
	Bruce Charlton
	BMJ  2005;331:695, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.695-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Five futures for academic medicine: "Speed networking" may be one way forward
	Matthew J Ridd, Alison R G Shaw
	BMJ  2005;331:695, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.695-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neonates must sometimes be allowed to die, but err in favour of life
	Frank J Leavitt
	BMJ  2005;331:695-696, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.695-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women doctors and their careers: what now?: The changing UK medical workforce's effect on planning and delivery of services
	Selena Gray, Ilora Finlay, Carol Black
	BMJ  2005;331:696, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.696 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women doctors and their careers: what now?: Women contribute less than men to non-clinical care as general practitioners in Scotland
	Brian H McKinstry, Iain Colthart, Katy Elliot, Colin Hunter
	BMJ  2005;331:696-697, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.696-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Foundation year for newly qualified doctors: A house officer writes
	Rahul Velineni
	BMJ  2005;331:697, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.697 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Foundation year for newly qualified doctors: Nobody knows whether the foundation programme works
	Shrilay Sinha
	BMJ  2005;331:697, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.697-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Foundation year for newly qualified doctors: Will this development benefit overseas doctors?
	Satya S Toram
	BMJ  2005;331:697, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.697-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Foundation year for newly qualified doctors: GMC assessment of junior doctors' competency is inadequate or inconsistent
	Nicholas J Matheson, Alex Burns, Katherine Henderson
	BMJ  2005;331:697-698, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.697-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of three authors]

	Melanoma incidence has risen in Europe
	Esther de Vries, Jan-Willem W Coebergh
	BMJ  2005;331:698, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.698 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Government did not suppress health inequalities report
	Caroline Flint
	BMJ  2005;331:698, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.698-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Short term outcomes lead to long term questions
	Sarah J Buckley
	BMJ  2005;331:698-699, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.698-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Israeli army's shoot to kill policy: Israeli soldiers confirm the policy documented in journal
	Derek A Summerfield
	BMJ  2005;331:699, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.699 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra reference]

	Israeli army's shoot to kill policy: Reply from the president of the Israeli Medical Association
	Yoram Blachar
	BMJ  2005;331:699, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.699-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Inequality is barrier to global development, says World Bank
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:651, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.651 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	UN global summit disappoints aid groups
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:651, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.651-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;331:652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.652 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Charity says NICE takes too long to assess cancer drugs
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;331:652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.652-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	England lags behind Scotland in assessing cancer drug
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.652-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Digital mammography is more accurate only for certain groups of women
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;331:653, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.653 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors refuse space to group fighting drug company influence
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2005;331:653, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.653-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Students should spend part of training in rural hospitals
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2005;331:655, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.655-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Men's life expectancy is catching up with women's
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2005;331:656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.656 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Quarter of people with diabetes in England are undiagnosed
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;331:656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.656-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Surgeon wins �1.6m in race discrimination case
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:654, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.654 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Dutch researchers call for sex education in primary schools
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2005;331:654, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.654-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	International Committee of the Red Cross set to accept new symbol
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2005;331:654, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.654-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GMC introduces tighter regulation for some and a lighter touch for others
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2005;331:654, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.654-c [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Women and girls are still victims of violence in Darfur
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2005;331:654, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.654-d [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Typhoid outbreak prompts protests over inadequate water system
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2005;331:655, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.655 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Thousands face compulsory treatment in the community under new UK act
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2005;331:655, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.655-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Older people's care needs a major overhaul
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2005;331:655, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.655-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Royal Society predicts that personalised medicines are still decades away
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;331:656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.656-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Extra NHS money spent on reviving previously neglected services
	Adrian O�Dowd
	BMJ  2005;331:656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.656-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Health problems due to pesticides may be underestimated
	Nick Smallwood
	BMJ  2005;331:656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.656-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Germany starts publishing hospital reports on internet
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2005;331:656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.656-e [Extract] [Full text]

	International Labour Organisation tackles work related injuries
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2005;331:656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.656-f [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;331:657-658, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.657 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Effect of a multifaceted intervention on number of antimicrobial prescriptions for suspected urinary tract infections in residents of nursing homes: cluster randomised controlled trial
	Mark Loeb, Kevin Brazil, Lynne Lohfeld, Allison McGeer, Andrew Simor, Kurt Stevenson, Dick Zoutman, Stephanie Smith, Xiwu Liu, Stephen D Walter
	BMJ  2005;331:669, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38602.586343.55, (Published 8 September 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Status epilepticus: an evidence based guide
	Matthew Walker
	BMJ  2005;331:673-677, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.673 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of health informatics: Why is this patient here today?
	Frank Sullivan, Jeremy C Wyatt
	BMJ  2005;331:678-680, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.678 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Taking the final step: changing the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide: Time for change
	M A Branthwaite
	BMJ  2005;331:681-683, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.681 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Taking the final step: changing the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide: Legalised euthanasia will violate the rights of vulnerable patients
	R J D George, I G Finlay, David Jeffrey
	BMJ  2005;331:684-685, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.684 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Taking the final step: changing the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide: Changes in BMA policy on assisted dying
	Ann Sommerville
	BMJ  2005;331:686-688, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.686 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Taking the final step: changing the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide: Moral dimensions
	Torbjörn Tännsjö
	BMJ  2005;331:689-691, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.689 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Taking the final step: changing the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide: Dutch experience of monitoring euthanasia
	Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Agnes van der Heide, Martien T Muller, Mette Rurup, Judith A C Rietjens, Jean-Jacques Georges, Astrid M Vrakking, Jacqueline M Cuperus-Bosma, Gerrit van der Wal, Paul J van der Maas
	BMJ  2005;331:691-693, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.691 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Missing figure]

Reviews

	Book: Selling Sickness: How Drug Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients
	Michael Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  2005;331:701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.701 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History
	Judith Green
	BMJ  2005;331:702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.702 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Film: EXIT—le droit de mourir
	Raghav Chawla
	BMJ  2005;331:702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.702-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Unlearning
	Chris Johnson
	BMJ  2005;331:703, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.703 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Risk management for academics
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2005;331:703, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.703-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;331:704, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.704 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Endovascular repair is worse than open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What's in October's studentBMJ?
	BMJ  2005;331:661, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.661 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Unexpected feedback
	Jane Barrett
	BMJ  2005;331:664, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.664 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The holocaust and medicine—a learning moment
	Uri Weinberg, Shmuel Reis
	BMJ  2005;331:668, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.668 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Academic medicine scenarios: final votes
	BMJ  2005;331:672, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.672 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Teaching the teacher a lesson
	Bruce McCormick
	BMJ  2005;331:677, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.677 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health in Africa
	BMJ  2005;331:683, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.683 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Advantage of excess
	Dean Wingerchuk
	BMJ  2005;331:685, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.685 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	I have dual nationality, one British, but I haven't lived in the United Kingdom for three years. How should I apply for an SHO position in the UK, and is there any difference compared with other overseas non-British doctors regarding the chances of being accepted, salary, or other aspects? Thank you.
	Elitham B Turya
	BMJ  2005;331:s124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s124, (Published 24 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am interested in taking a year out of training to work as a cruise ship doctor for six months and then do some travelling. When and how should I apply for such a job? Three years after qualification? Please advise.
	Alon Duby
	BMJ  2005;331:s124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s124-a, (Published 24 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am a third year resident in general surgery in Thessaloniki, Greece. After completing my six year training in general surgery I am interested in training in a more specialised field of general surgery (for example, breast or colorectal surgery). What route should I follow? What sort of position should I apply for? What are the requirements?
	Faisal Hanif
	BMJ  2005;331:s124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s124-b, (Published 24 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;331:gp125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.sgp125, (Published 24 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;331:s125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s125, (Published 24 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A guide to clinical attachments
	Lynette T Hlatywayo
	BMJ  2005;331:s125-s126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s125-a, (Published 24 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Filling in a claim form
	Muhammed Faisal Kiani
	BMJ  2005;331:s126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s126, (Published 24 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Overseas doctors—the UK visa hurdle
	Asha Reddy
	BMJ  2005;331:s127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s127, (Published 24 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The big leap down under
	Jyoti Josson
	BMJ  2005;331:s128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s128, (Published 24 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diploma in Travel Medicine (DTM)
	Stroma Beattie
	BMJ  2005;331:s129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s129, (Published 24 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on the ball doctors
	BMJ  2005;331:s129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s129-a, (Published 24 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Practice based commissioning: an introduction
	Julian Neal
	BMJ  2005;331:gp130-gp131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.sgp130, (Published 24 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Teaching medicine in a developing country
	Lionel Tan
	BMJ  2005;331:s130-s131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s130, (Published 24 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Certificate in the Social Sciences of the Open University—CertSocSci (OU)
	Patrick Wills
	BMJ  2005;331:gp131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.sgp131, (Published 24 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Getting started at a new hospital
	Faiyaz Mohammed
	BMJ  2005;331:s131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s131, (Published 24 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A medical mathematical modeller
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;331:s132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.s132, (Published 24 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Alan Bremner
	Robin G B Wood
	BMJ  2005;331:700, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.700 [Extract] [Full text]

	Bettina Jane ("Bee") Eppel
	Wynne Aveling
	BMJ  2005;331:700, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.700-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Paul Goodson
	Roger Burns
	BMJ  2005;331:700, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.700-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Julius Kimerling
	George Conn
	BMJ  2005;331:700, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.700-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Brian Thomas Williams
	Michael Warren, John Pemberton
	BMJ  2005;331:700, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.700-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Randomised controlled trial of the Lidcombe programme of early stuttering intervention
	Mark Jones, Mark Onslow, Ann Packman, Shelley Williams, Tika Ormond, Ilsa Schwarz, Val Gebski
	BMJ  2005;331:659, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38520.451840.E0, (Published 11 August 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antenatal betamethasone and incidence of neonatal respiratory distress after elective caesarean section: pragmatic randomised trial
	Peter Stutchfield, Rhiannon Whitaker, Ian Russell, on behalf of the Antenatal Steroids for Term Elective Caesarean Section (ASTECS) Research Team
	BMJ  2005;331:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38547.416493.06, (Published 22 August 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: List of collaborators] FREE

	Antenatal exposure to betamethasone: psychological functioning and health related quality of life 31 years after inclusion in randomised controlled trial
	Stuart R Dalziel, Vanessa K Lim, Anthony Lambert, Dianne McCarthy, Varsha Parag, Anthony Rodgers, Jane E Harding
	BMJ  2005;331:665, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38576.494363.E0, (Published 5 September 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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