Everything you know is wrong
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2008;337:a3027 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Understanding the role of the doctor
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;337:a3035 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Left-right discrimination in medicine
	Chris McManus
	BMJ  2008;337:a2906 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Learning from emergencies
	John Seaman
	BMJ  2008;337:a2865 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The health of nations
	Martin McKee, Anthony J McMichael
	BMJ  2008;337:a2811 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Sport

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	Christmas 2008: Sport: Mortality on Mount Everest, 1921-2006: descriptive study
	Paul G Firth, Hui Zheng, Jeremy S Windsor, Andrew I Sutherland, Christopher H Imray, G W K Moore, John L Semple, Robert C Roach, Richard A Salisbury
	BMJ  2008;337:a2654 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Sport: Voices in the air
	Jeremy S Windsor
	BMJ  2008;337:a2667 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Sport: Rugby (the religion of Wales) and its influence on the Catholic church: should Pope Benedict XVI be worried?
	Gareth C Payne, Rebecca E Payne, Daniel M Farewell
	BMJ  2008;337:a2768 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Sport: Is golf bad for your hearing?
	M A Buchanan, J M Wilkinson, J E Fitzgerald, P R Prinsley
	BMJ  2008;337:a2835 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Seasonal Fayre

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	Christmas 2008: Seasonal Fayre: Frankincense: systematic review
	E Ernst
	BMJ  2008;337:a2813 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Seasonal Fayre: Appointments timed in proximity to annual milestones and compliance with screening: randomised controlled trial
	Geir Hoff, Michael Bretthauer
	BMJ  2008;337:a2794 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Seasonal Fayre: Festive medical myths
	Rachel C Vreeman, Aaron E Carroll
	BMJ  2008;337:a2769 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Food and Drink

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	Christmas 2008: Food and Drink: Fantastic feeding funnels
	M P Park, R H R Park
	BMJ  2008;337:a2888 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Food and Drink: Please, sir, I want some more
	L Smith, S J Thornton, J Reinarz, A N Williams
	BMJ  2008;337:a2722 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Food and Drink: Billy Bunter and the obesogenic environment
	Mark Petticrew
	BMJ  2008;337:a2877 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Food and Drink: Coca-Cola douches and contraception
	Deborah J Anderson
	BMJ  2008;337:a2873 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Music

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	Christmas 2008: Music: Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass
	Declan Patton, Andrew McIntosh
	BMJ  2008;337:a2825 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Music: A symphony of maladies
	Sarah Bache, Frank Edenborough
	BMJ  2008;337:a2646 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Great Britons

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	Christmas 2008: Great Britons: Reappraising Florence Nightingale
	Keith Williams
	BMJ  2008;337:a2889 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Great Britons: Auntibiotics: the BBC, penicillin, and the second world war
	Gilbert Shama
	BMJ  2008;337:a2746 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Great Britons: Churchill’s flu poem
	Angus Nicoll, Kei Mori, Masato Tashiro
	BMJ  2008;337:a2890 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Formative Years

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	Christmas 2008: Formative Years: Not what we used to be?
	Peter Rubin
	BMJ  2008;337:a2905 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Formative Years: Deport that student
	Stefan K Burgdorf, Jakob Burcharth, Jacob Rosenberg
	BMJ  2008;337:a2912 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Formative Years: Not becoming a communist doctor
	A P Barabas
	BMJ  2008;337:a2953 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Formative Years: Right-left discrimination among medical students: questionnaire and psychometric study
	Gerard J Gormley, Martin Dempster, Rachael Best
	BMJ  2008;337:a2826 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Formative Years: The left handed surgical trainee
	B Lieske
	BMJ  2008;337:a2883 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Professional Considerations

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	Christmas 2008: Professional Considerations: The headwaters of family medicine
	David Loxterkamp
	BMJ  2008;337:a2575 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Professional Considerations: Back to the future: emergency departments and ancient Greek warfare
	Bernard A Foex
	BMJ  2008;337:a2761 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Professional Considerations: The cult of the conference bag
	Frank D Burke
	BMJ  2008;337:a2677 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Professional Considerations: How to safeguard your ring in theatre
	A Ardolino, T B Crook, H P Taylor
	BMJ  2008;337:a2592 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Professional Considerations: They don’t train ’em like they used to
	James S Taylor, Simon Nicholson
	BMJ  2008;337:a2895 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Professional Considerations: A to Z of radiology
	Matthew D B S Tam
	BMJ  2008;337:a2590 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

This week's Filler

	Christmas 2008: Seasonal Fayre: Painful panto
	James Heffer
	BMJ  2008;337:a2138 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Music: Texting shows recovery after faint
	Mike Sinclair, David W Pigott, Katherine N Carpenter
	BMJ  2008;337:a2723 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Music: "Only the good . . ."
	Stephen Malnick, Sorel Goland
	BMJ  2008;337:a2897 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Formative years: Who gives me five?
	Matthias Bopp, David Faeh
	BMJ  2008;337:a2950 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Do antibiotics and alcohol mix? The beliefs of genitourinary clinic attendees
	J Lwanga, A Mears, J S Bingham, C S Bradbeer
	BMJ  2008;337:a2885 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Formative Years: NICE—National Institute of Coordinated Experiments
	David A White
	BMJ  2008;337:a2778 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Professional Considerations: Bumf: increasing exponentially
	John R Kirwan, Rosmarie Kirwan
	BMJ  2008;337:a2864 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2008: Professional Matters: Say goodbye to the bag
	Susan M Wearne
	BMJ  2008;337:a2309 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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