Editor's choice: Thinking caps on
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2009;339:b5471 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Christmas 2009: In praise of the physical examination
	Abraham Verghese, Ralph I Horwitz
	BMJ  2009;339:b5448 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Years Like This: Secret remedies: 100 years on
	David Colquhoun
	BMJ  2009;339:b5432 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: World hunger: a reasonable proposal
	Frederick Kaufman
	BMJ  2009;339:b5209 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Professional matters: Where have all the hospital flowers gone?
	Simon Cohn
	BMJ  2009;339:b5406 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Years Like This

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	Christmas 2009: Years Like This: Journal of another plague year
	Mark Petticrew, David Morrison
	BMJ  2009;339:b5033 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Years Like This: Will it all go wrong? Sod’s law and medicine
	Tony Hope, Dominic Wilkinson
	BMJ  2009;339:b5299 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Years Like This: Patent medicines and secret remedies
	Jeffrey K Aronson
	BMJ  2009;339:b5415 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	I should cocoa
	Mike Hinchliffe
	BMJ  2009;339:b5392 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Years like this: The Spanish influenza pandemic seen through the BMJ’s eyes: observations and unanswered questions
	Tom Jefferson, Eliana Ferroni
	BMJ  2009;339:b5313 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Filler: BMJ archive: the videos
	David Payne
	BMJ  2009;339:b5439 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas: Years Like This: Ingested foreign bodies and societal wealth: three year observational study of swallowed coins
	P G Firth, H Zheng, J A Biller
	BMJ  2009;339:b5066 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Diagnosis

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	Christmas: Diagnosis: A gold elixir of youth in the 16th century French court
	Philippe Charlier, Joel Poupon, Isabelle Huynh-Charlier, Jean-Francois Saliege, Dominique Favier, Christine Keyser, Bertrand Ludes
	BMJ  2009;339:b5311 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Diagnosis: Lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, winter 1872-3
	Ulf Aasebo, Kjell G Kjaer
	BMJ  2009;339:b5038 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Diagnosis: Stigma and prejudice in Tintin
	Juan Medrano, Pablo Malo, Jose J Uriarte, Ana-Pia Lopez
	BMJ  2009;339:b5308 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Diagnosis: Animated ophthalmology
	Daniel G Ezra, Geoff Rose, Andrew Coombes, Gordon Plant
	BMJ  2009;339:b4948 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Young and old: Lying obliquely—a clinical sign of cognitive impairment: cross sectional observational study
	Peter Kraft, Ottar Gadeholt, Matthias J Wieser, Jenifer Jennings, Joseph Classen
	BMJ  2009;339:b5273 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Diagnosis: Darwin’s illness revisited
	John A Hayman
	BMJ  2009;339:b4968 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Diagnosis: House calls: The case of the entertaining case
	Rhys H Thomas, Naomi J P Thomas
	BMJ  2009;339:b5256 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Filler: George Clooney, the cauliflower, the cardiologist, and phi, the golden ratio
	Hanno Ulmer, Cecily C Kelleher, Martin W Dunser
	BMJ  2009;339:b4745 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Anaesthesia

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	Christmas 2009: Anaesthesia: Painless amputation: history of a discovery that wasn’t made
	Sam Shuster
	BMJ  2009;339:b5202 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report
	Vladislav Rogozov, Neil Bermel
	BMJ  2009;339:b4965 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescriber’s narcophobia syndrome: physicians’ disease and patients’ misfortune
	Boris D Veysman
	BMJ  2009;339:b4987 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Christmas Fayre

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	Christmas 2009: Seasonal Fayre: Christmas quiz
	Clare Verrill
	BMJ  2009;339:b5355 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Seasonal Fayre: Christmas quiz: Answers
	Clare Verrill
	BMJ  2009;339:b4893 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Christmas Fayre: Santa Claus: a public health pariah?
	Nathan J Grills, Brendan Halyday
	BMJ  2009;339:b5261 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Christmas Fayre: Ethical dilemma
	Nitha Naqvi, Piers E F Daubeney
	BMJ  2009;339:b5074 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Musical Interlude

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	Django’s Hand
	David J Williams, Tom S Potokar
	BMJ  2009;339:b5348 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Music: Effect of listening to Nellie the Elephant during CPR training on performance of chest compressions by lay people: randomised crossover trial
	L Rawlins, M Woollard, J Williams, P Hallam
	BMJ  2009;339:b4707 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Young and Old

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	Christmas 2009: Young and old: The association of early IQ and education with mortality: 65 year longitudinal study in Malmö, Sweden
	A Lager, S Bremberg, D Vagero
	BMJ  2009;339:b5282 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Young and Old: Perceived age as clinically useful biomarker of ageing: cohort study
	Kaare Christensen, Mikael Thinggaard, Matt McGue, Helle Rexbye, Jacob v B Hjelmborg, Abraham Aviv, David Gunn, Frans van der Ouderaa, James W Vaupel
	BMJ  2009;339:b5262 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Young and Old: Retrospective analysis of attitudes to ageing in the Economist: apocalyptic demography for opinion formers
	Ruth Martin, Caroline Williams, Desmond O'Neill
	BMJ  2009;339:b4914 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Afterlife

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	Christmas 2009: Afterlife: "Silent virtuous teachers": anatomical dissection in Taiwan
	Steven C Lin, Julia Hsu, Victoria Y Fan
	BMJ  2009;339:b5001 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Afterlife: From flower graves to breast clinics
	David Robinson
	BMJ  2009;339:b4932 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Professional Matters

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	Christmas 2009: Professional Matters: Brain maps
	Lawrence Caldicott
	BMJ  2009;339:b5490 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Professional matters: Wards of the roses
	Giskin Day, Naiome Carter
	BMJ  2009;339:b5257 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Professional Matters: Selling patients
	Peter Nugus, Jackie Bridges, Jeffrey Braithwaite
	BMJ  2009;339:b5201 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009—Professional Matters: H-index pathology: implications for medical researchers and practitioners
	Rob Horne, Keith J Petrie, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2009;339:b5356 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2009: Professional Matters: Evidence based merriment
	David Isaacs, Stephen Isaacs, Dominic Fitzgerald
	BMJ  2009;339:b5098 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The surgical sieve
	Tom Turmezei
	BMJ  2009;339:b5384 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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