Doing things differently
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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	Role of gastro-oesophageal reflux treatment for chronic cough may be in doubt [Full text]

	Use of a dummy is associated with reduced risk of SIDS [Full text]

	Clarithromycin in stable coronary heart disease may increase mortality [Full text]

	Let practice nurses tell partners about chlamydia [Full text]

	What works for migraine [Full text]

Editorials

	The BMJ is evolving
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2006;332:1-2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.1 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Epilepsy and supplementary nurse prescribing
	Patricia G Hosking
	BMJ  2006;332:2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fundoscopy: to dilate or not to dilate?
	Gerald Liew, Paul Mitchell, Jie Jin Wang, Tien Yin Wong
	BMJ  2006;332:3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.3 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Magnet therapy
	Leonard Finegold, Bruce L Flamm
	BMJ  2006;332:4, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.4 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	The nursing profession's coming of age: The end of medicine as a profession
	David L Bisset
	BMJ  2006;332:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.51 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The nursing profession's coming of age: The death of nursing, the dumbing down of medicine
	Robbie S Coull
	BMJ  2006;332:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.51-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The nursing profession's coming of age: Contribution of "maxi" nurses is exaggerated
	Susan Duncan
	BMJ  2006;332:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.51-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The nursing profession's coming of age: Plus ça change
	Memo G S Spathis
	BMJ  2006;332:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.51-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The nursing profession's coming of age: My experience of nurse practitioners
	Anjan Chakraborty
	BMJ  2006;332:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.51-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The nursing profession's coming of age: Not as successful as it looks
	Trefor J Roscoe
	BMJ  2006;332:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.51-e [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The nursing profession's coming of age: Sign of the times
	Vinay P Rao
	BMJ  2006;332:51-52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.51-f [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The nursing profession's coming of age: A difference in cultures
	Ayan S Panja
	BMJ  2006;332:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.52 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The nursing profession's coming of age: Separate but complementary
	Anthony Papagiannis
	BMJ  2006;332:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.52-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The nursing profession's coming of age: Doctors can use their skills to the maximum
	Sandra Magennis
	BMJ  2006;332:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.52-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The nursing profession's coming of age: A team effort required?
	Mark Davies
	BMJ  2006;332:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.52-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rise and demise of the hospital: Managing hospital inpatient care
	Graham Neale, Sisse Olsen
	BMJ  2006;332:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.52-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rise and demise of the hospital: Backwards is the new forward: time for the heritage hospital
	Richard Neil Harrison
	BMJ  2006;332:52-53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.52-e [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is methadone too dangerous for opiate addiction?: Issue is one of toxicity v acceptability
	Adam Bakker, Vanessa Sibanda
	BMJ  2006;332:53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.53 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is methadone too dangerous for opiate addiction?: Methadone is still needed in addiction treatments
	Andrew Byrne, Richard Hallinan
	BMJ  2006;332:53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.53-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are GPs who specialise in dermatology effective?: Be wary of generalising research conclusions
	Peter M Lapsley
	BMJ  2006;332:53-54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.53-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are GPs who specialise in dermatology effective?: Result for teamwork and planning is positive
	Stephen F Hayes
	BMJ  2006;332:54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.54 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are GPs who specialise in dermatology effective?: High cost of general practitioners with special interests is a fallacy
	Cornelius J Crowley
	BMJ  2006;332:54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.54-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are GPs who specialise in dermatology effective?: Cost calculations were impenetrable
	Simon F Cooper
	BMJ  2006;332:54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.54-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Uncertainty still surrounds oseltamivir after 13 year old dies
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2006;332:5, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.5 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Indian firm to produce oseltamivir for developing countries
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2006;332:5, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.5-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;332:6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.6 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cancer organisation hits out at medical research funded by tobacco companies
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2006;332:6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.6-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch launch campaign against drinking
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2006;332:6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.6-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Korean stem cell pioneer resigns
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2006;332:7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.7 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Swiss hospital lets terminally ill patients commit suicide in its beds
	Clare Chapman
	BMJ  2006;332:7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.7-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs ridicule proposed UK partial smoking ban
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;332:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.9-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Rebuilding from the rubble
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2006;332:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.10 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Lords recommend “passive immunisation” if bird flu reaches UK
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;332:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.8 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Germany privatises university hospital
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2006;332:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.8-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cleared GP faces further investigation into more deaths
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.8-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cough medicines’ effect is mainly placebo
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;332:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.8-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Patients get four choices for NHS treatments
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2006;332:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.8-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	CDC recommends new tuberculosis blood test
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2006;332:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.9 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK policy to reduce skills drain from Africa is ineffective
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;332:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.9-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

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	Non-NHS treatment centres are detrimental to local health services, finds BMA survey
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;332:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.10-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Privately financed hospital faces £100m debt
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;332:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.10-b [Extract] [Full text]

	US health improvements stagnate
	Janice Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.10-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Proton pump inhibitors match surgery in gastroesophageal reflux
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.10-d [Extract] [Full text]

	English trusts fail to follow guidance on infection control
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.10-e [Extract] [Full text]

	GP contract settlement under threat
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2006;332:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.10-f [Extract] [Full text]

	Pakistan starts HIV treatment programme
	Ashfaq Yusufzai
	BMJ  2006;332:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.10-g [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2006;332:38, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.38 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of gastro-oesophageal reflux interventions for chronic cough associated with gastro-oesophageal reflux
	A B Chang, T J Lasserson, T O Kiljander, F L Connor, J T Gaffney, L A Garske
	BMJ  2006;332:11-17, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38677.559005.55, (Published 5 December 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Partner notification of chlamydia infection in primary care: randomised controlled trial and analysis of resource use
	Nicola Low, Anne McCarthy, Tracy E Roberts, Mia Huengsberg, Emma Sanford, Jonathan A C Sterne, John Macleod, Chris Salisbury, Karl Pye, Aisha Holloway, Andrea Morcom, Rita Patel, Suzanne M Robinson, Paddy Horner, Pelham M Barton, Matthias Egger
	BMJ  2006;332:14-19, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38678.405370.7C, (Published 15 December 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of a dummy (pacifier) during sleep and risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS): population based case-control study
	De-Kun Li, Marian Willinger, Diana B Petitti, Roxana Odouli, Liyan Liu, Howard J Hoffman
	BMJ  2006;332:18-22, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38671.640475.55, (Published 9 December 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised placebo controlled multicentre trial to assess short term clarithromycin for patients with stable coronary heart disease: CLARICOR trial
	Christian M Jespersen, Bodil Als-Nielsen, Morten Damgaard, Jørgen Fischer Hansen, Stig Hansen, Olav H Helø, Per Hildebrandt, Jørgen Hilden, Gorm B Jensen, Jens Kastrup, Hans Jørn Kolmos, Erik Kjøller, Inga Lind, Henrik Nielsen, Lars Petersen, Christian Gluud, CLARICOR Trial Group
	BMJ  2006;332:22-27, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38666.653600.55, (Published 8 December 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Recent advances in the diagnosis and management of migraine
	Peter J Goadsby
	BMJ  2006;332:25-29, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.25 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

Practice

	Patient's journey: My bipolar expedition
	Suzanne G Johnston
	BMJ  2006;332:30-32, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.30 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Bipolar disorder—services need to catch up with rapidly developing evidence base
	John Geddes
	BMJ  2006;332:32-33, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.32 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further references]

	Interactive case report: An alcoholic patient who continues to drink: case presentation
	Stuart McPherson, Colin John Rees
	BMJ  2006;332:33, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.33 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of breast diseases: Medical treatment of early breast cancer. I: adjuvant treatment
	Ian Smith, Susan Chua
	BMJ  2006;332:34-37, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.34 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis and Comment

	Primary care: A century of general practice
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;332:39-40, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.39 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Visions of primary care in 2015: Good general practitioners will continue to be essential
	Mayur Lakhani, Maureen Baker
	BMJ  2006;332:41-43, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.41 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The magic roundabout
	Peter Lapsley
	BMJ  2006;332:43-44, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.43 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Return of a system based on social values
	Dougal Jeffries
	BMJ  2006;332:44-45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.44 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	General practice under pressure
	Hamish Meldrum
	BMJ  2006;332:46-47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.46 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Still striving for utopia
	Carol Black
	BMJ  2006;332:47-48, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health policy: Improving NICE's social value judgments
	Jonathan A Michaels
	BMJ  2006;332:48-50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.48 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: A History of Britain's Hospitals and the Background to the Medical, Nursing and Allied Professions
	Leyla Sanai
	BMJ  2006;332:57, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2006;332:58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: The doctor-patient relationship in reverse
	Waqas Ullah
	BMJ  2006;332:58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.58-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Is it time to rethink mobile medical teams?
	Edward M Walsh
	BMJ  2006;332:59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: On reading Proust
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2006;332:59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.59-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;332:60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.60 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: New drug for gout shows early promise
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A case of "proper" flu
	Nigel Williams
	BMJ  2006;332:37, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.37 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Coping with change
	BMJ  2006;332:40, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.40 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Do-it-yourself cardioversion
	Clive McGavin, Jamie Davies, John Beer
	BMJ  2006;332:50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.50 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Is there any special interest training in mental health for GPs?
	Rahul Rao
	BMJ  2006;332:s2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.s2, (Published 7 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am a fourth year medical student and am interested in mountain medicine, medical rescue operations, and expedition medicine. What should I do and how should I train for this? Is it super-specialisation? Do I need to complete my postgraduation in general surgery or medicine or general practice before getting enrolled in this field?
	Mark Wilson
	BMJ  2006;332:s2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.s2-a, (Published 7 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What are the opportunities for doing an MD? I have done MRCP part 1 and want to do an MD in medicine
	Brian Angus
	BMJ  2006;332:s2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.s2-b, (Published 7 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2006;332:gp3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.sgp3, (Published 7 January 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Foundation and beyond: is the future any clearer?
	Ashok Handa
	BMJ  2006;332:gp3-gp5, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.sgp3-a, (Published 7 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2006;332:s3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.s3, (Published 7 January 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Foundation and beyond: is the future any clearer?
	Ashok Handa
	BMJ  2006;332:s3-s5, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.s3-a, (Published 7 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Pulling a diploma out of the bag
	Jonathan Botting
	BMJ  2006;332:gp6-gp7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.sgp6, (Published 7 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Thoracic surgery: new training for an old specialty
	Carol Tan
	BMJ  2006;332:s6-s7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.s6, (Published 7 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Surviving night shifts
	Douglas Noble, Ellen Funnell
	BMJ  2006;332:gp7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.sgp7, (Published 7 January 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Surviving night shifts
	Douglas Noble, Ellen Funnell
	BMJ  2006;332:s7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.s7, (Published 7 January 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Procreating an accredited postgraduate educational course
	Ram Dhillon
	BMJ  2006;332:gp8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.sgp8, (Published 7 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Overseas doctors' health
	Julie Sladden
	BMJ  2006;332:s8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.s8, (Published 7 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Overseas doctors' health
	Julie Sladden
	BMJ  2006;332:gp9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.sgp9, (Published 7 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	MA/Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Ethics and Law
	Kathryn Leask
	BMJ  2006;332:s9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.s9, (Published 7 January 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The BMJ picture editor
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2006;332:s10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.s10, (Published 7 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Emin Kaya Alpar
	Vijay Vardhan Killampalli
	BMJ  2006;332:55, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.55 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Cecil Berl Collins
	D W Levy
	BMJ  2006;332:55, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.55-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Morrell Henry Draper
	John Duffus
	BMJ  2006;332:55, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.55-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Michael Hemming
	Tom Hemming
	BMJ  2006;332:55, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.55-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Camilla Maria Magbadelo (née Rodrigues)
	Stephen Vogt
	BMJ  2006;332:55-56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.55-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David John Dyson Perrins
	P B James
	BMJ  2006;332:56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.56 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Mary Millicent Rayner (née Dale)
	C M Rayner
	BMJ  2006;332:56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.56-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Derek Conmar Robinson
	Kate Anderson, Margaret Hall, Robert Hall
	BMJ  2006;332:56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.56-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Arun Kumar Sarkar
	P G Flanagan
	BMJ  2006;332:56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.56-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Malcolm Latham Shearer
	Margaret Shearer, Michael Hamilton, Jonathan Burton
	BMJ  2006;332:56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.56-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Dudley Staunton
	William Shand
	BMJ  2006;332:56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.56-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Roy Cooke Tyldesley
	Norman H L Taylor
	BMJ  2006;332:56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7532.56-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

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