The crooked timber of humanity
	T Delamothe
	BMJ  2009;339:b3813 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Ethnic minorities and their perceptions of the quality of primary care
	Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2009;339:b3797 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meeting the health needs of trafficked persons
	Cathy Zimmerman, Sian Oram, Rosilyne Borland, Charlotte Watts
	BMJ  2009;339:b3326 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Age based discrimination in health and social care services
	David Oliver
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	Does improving quality of care save money?
	John Appleby
	BMJ  2009;339:b3678 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health and climate change
	M Jay, M G Marmot
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Letters

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	Climate change: Politicians must heed health effects of climate change
	Victor Lim, Joseph W Stubbs, Nazmun Nahar, Naomali Amarasena, Zafar Ullah Chaudry, Steven Chow Kim Weng, Bongani Mayosi, Zephne van der Spuy, Raymond Liang, Kar Neng Lai, Geoffrey Metz, G William N Fitzgerald, Brian Williams, Neil Douglas, John Donohoe, Somwang Darnchaivijir, Patrick Coker, Ian Gilmore
	BMJ  2009;339:b3672 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Climate change: NHS organisations, let’s all sign up to the 10:10 campaign
	Deborah Evans, Ian Carruthers, Janet King, Mary Edwards, Neal Deans, Patrick Geoghegan, Peter Homa, Robert Naylor, Tim Ballard, Tim Riley, Stella Dutton
	BMJ  2009;339:b3693 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted dying debate: A baroness replies
	Ilora G Finlay
	BMJ  2009;339:b3762 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted dying debate: Doctors’ attitudes surveyed
	Clive Seale
	BMJ  2009;339:b3761 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted dying debate: Life is a terminal condition
	Malcolm Bowker
	BMJ  2009;339:b3682 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted dying debate: Doctors, steer entirely clear
	Christopher J Spencer Jones
	BMJ  2009;339:b3760 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	End of life decisions: Authors respond to editorial
	Lieve Van den Block, Reginald Deschepper, Johan Bilsen, Nathalie Bossuyt, Viviane Van Casteren, Luc Deliens
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	End of life decisions: Doctors can be trusted
	Agnes van der Heide, Judith A C Rietjens
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	End of life decisions: Counting end of life decisions
	Clive Seale
	BMJ  2009;339:b3690 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Osteoarthritis of the knee: Precise diagnosis and treatment
	Justin Cobb
	BMJ  2009;339:b3747 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Herpes zoster ophthalmicus: Don’t forget HIV
	Kathir Yoganathan
	BMJ  2009;339:b3621 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 flu pandemic: Roche responds
	Michelle Rashford
	BMJ  2009;339:b3758 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 flu pandemic: Should flu have at least one respiratory symptom?
	Nicholas J Sharvill
	BMJ  2009;339:b3757 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mesothelioma patient journey: Researching the small things that matter
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2009;339:b3749 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	China gears up for swine flu vaccination as virus spreads inland
	Jane Parry
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	GPs are to be paid £5.25 a shot for swine flu vaccination
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b3815 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
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	Researchers, like politicians, use "spin" in presenting their results, conference hears
	Mabel Chew
	BMJ  2009;339:b3779 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More than 20% of articles have a "guest" author, study shows
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;339:b3783 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors’ view of care pathway for dying patients clashes with audit findings
	Zosia Kmietowicz
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	Doctor is cleared of asking nurse to give fatal dose to dying patient
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;339:b3812 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obama calls on Congress to pass health reform and explains his plan
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;339:b3719 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Four in 10 deaths among young people worldwide from injuries, study finds
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b3742 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mentally ill prisoners continue to face death penalty in Japan, says Amnesty
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b3729 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	AIDS awareness campaign that used Hitler lookalike provokes anger and support
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2009;339:b3793 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nominations open for next year’s BMJ Group awards
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2009;339:b3766 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fighting and lack of rain result in mounting crisis in southern Sudan
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;339:b3792 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Wellcome Trust and Merck join forces to develop vaccines for low income countries
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2009;339:b3804 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2009;339:b3739 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Climate Change: Population: the forgotten priority
	Rebecca Coombes
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	Patient Safety: Putting safety on the curriculum
	Oliver Ellis
	BMJ  2009;339:b3725 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Life and Death: No power for the people
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2009;339:b3735 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Is rate more important than rhythm in treating atrial fibrillation? Yes
	Timothy R Betts
	BMJ  2009;339:b3173 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is rate more important than rhythm in treating atrial fibrillation? No
	Andrew R J Mitchell
	BMJ  2009;339:b3174 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Economics of biological therapies
	Christopher J Kelly, Fraz A Mir
	BMJ  2009;339:b3276 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Effects of a physiotherapy and occupational therapy intervention on mobility and activity in care home residents: a cluster randomised controlled trial
	Catherine M Sackley, Maayken E van den Berg, Karen Lett, Smitaa Patel, Kristen Hollands, Christine C Wright, Thomas J Hoppitt
	BMJ  2009;339:b3123 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Equity, waiting times, and NHS reforms: retrospective study
	Zachary N Cooper, Alistair McGuire, S Jones, J Le Grand
	BMJ  2009;339:b3264 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparisons between geographies of mortality and deprivation from the 1900s and 2001: spatial analysis of census and mortality statistics
	Ian N Gregory
	BMJ  2009;339:b3454 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The effects of excluding patients from the analysis in randomised controlled trials: meta-epidemiological study
	Eveline Nuesch, Sven Trelle, Stephan Reichenbach, Anne W S Rutjes, Elizabeth Burgi, Martin Scherer, Douglas G Altman, Peter Juni
	BMJ  2009;339:b3244 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Understanding why some ethnic minority patients evaluate medical care more negatively than white patients: a cross sectional analysis of a routine patient survey in English general practices
	Nicola Mead, Martin Roland
	BMJ  2009;339:b3450 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The benefits of steroids versus steroids plus antivirals for treatment of Bell’s palsy: a meta-analysis
	Eudocia C Quant, Shafali S Jeste, Rajeev H Muni, Alison V Cape, Manveen K Bhussar, Anton Y Peleg
	BMJ  2009;339:b3354 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Autoimmune liver disease for the non-specialist
	Sofie Decock, Phyllis McGee, Gideon M Hirschfield
	BMJ  2009;339:b3305 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Rational Testing: Preoperative risk assessment for bleeding and thromboembolism
	Donald M Arnold, Julia Anderson, Clive Kearon
	BMJ  2009;339:b2299 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Digoxin specific antibody fragments (Digibind) in digoxin toxicity
	Dorothy Ip, Hafiz Syed, Maurice Cohen
	BMJ  2009;339:b2884 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Obituaries: Jane Margery Wynne
	Simon Currie
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	Ruth Goodman (née Sabel)
	Sarah Goodman
	BMJ  2009;339:b3703 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Julius Hoenig
	M L D Fernando, Uma Sirinivasan
	BMJ  2009;339:b3715 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Iain Cran McLean
	Greg Purdie
	BMJ  2009;339:b3740 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charalampos Proukakis
	Nick Bouras
	BMJ  2009;339:b3736 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nirmal Satsangi (née Bhatia)
	P N Satsangi
	BMJ  2009;339:b3706 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Robert Miles Swinburne
	Tony Bullock
	BMJ  2009;339:b3585 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: A healthy alternative to climate change negotiations
	Robin Stott
	BMJ  2009;339:b3741 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Left to rot
	Richard Hurley
	BMJ  2009;339:b3788 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Death shall have no dignity
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;339:b3506 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Sister Morphine
	Marina Hill
	BMJ  2009;339:b3806 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: A wicked encyclopaedia
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;339:b3814 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bigger Picture: All that glisters
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2009;339:b3734 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Statistical question: Relative risk reduction and absolute risk reduction
	Siva K Talluri
	BMJ  2009;339:b3626 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case Report: Persistent diarrhoea in a young woman
	Rene Ramnarace, James Ricketts, Harry Dalton
	BMJ  2009;339:b3369 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination quiz: Calcium
	BMJ  2009;339:b3711 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: An itchy ear that became painful
	Dipan Mistry, Helen Atkinson
	BMJ  2009;339:b3632 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2009;339:b3700 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anita Amin, Arjida Woollons
	BMJ  2009;339:b3712 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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