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18 December 2010 (Vol 341, No 7786)
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Welcome to our feast of fools
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2010;341:c7228 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Editorial: Self experimentation and the Nuremberg Code
George J Annas
BMJ  2010;341:c7103 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Editorial: The private finance initiative: the gift that goes on taking
Allyson M Pollock, David Price
BMJ  2010;341:c7175 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Editorial: Strategies for coping with information overload
Richard Smith
BMJ  2010;341:c7126 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Research: Effect on gastric function and symptoms of drinking wine, black tea, or schnapps with a Swiss cheese fondue: randomised controlled crossover trial
Henriette Heinrich, Oliver Goetze, Dieter Menne, Peter X Iten, Heiko Fruehauf, Stephan R Vavricka, Werner Schwizer, Michael Fried, Mark Fox
BMJ  2010;341:c6731 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Research: Testing the validity of the Danish urban myth that alcohol can be absorbed through feet: open labelled self experimental study
Christian Stevns Hansen, Louise Holmsgaard Faerch, Peter Lommer Kristensen
BMJ  2010;341:c6812 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Research: Beauty sleep: experimental study on the perceived health and attractiveness of sleep deprived people
John Axelsson, Tina Sundelin, Michael Ingre, Eus J W Van Someren, Andreas Olsson, Mats Lekander
BMJ  2010;341:c6614 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Research: Can he fix it? Yes, he can!
Kelly Weston, Kate Bush, Farid Afshar, Steven Rowley
BMJ  2010;341:c6645 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: The Lives of Doctors: Urine output on an intensive care unit: case-control study
Anthony W Solomon, Christopher J Kirwan, Neal D E Alexander, Kofi Nimako, Angela Jurukov, Rebecca J Forth, Tony M Rahman, on behalf of the Prospective Analysis of Renal Compensation for Hypohydration in Exhausted Doctors (PARCHED) Investigators
BMJ  2010;341:c6761 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: The Lives of Doctors: Phantom vibration syndrome among medical staff: a cross sectional survey
Michael B Rothberg, Ashish Arora, Jodie Hermann, Reva Kleppel, Peter St Marie, Paul Visintainer
BMJ  2010;341:c6914 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: The Lives of Doctors: The barrier method as a new tool to assist in career selection: covert observational study
R Scott McCain, Andrew R Harris, Kevin McCallion, W Jeffrey Campbell, Stephen J Kirk
BMJ  2010;341:c6968 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: The Lives of Doctors: Bicycle weight and commuting time: randomised trial
J Groves
BMJ  2010;341:c6801 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Primary Care: A modest proposal
Philip A Mackowiak
BMJ  2010;341:c6605 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Primary Care: Liberating the NHS acronym
BMJ  2010;341:c6615 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Primary Care: Are there too many referral forms?
Margaret McCartney, Philip Ewart, Christine Scott
BMJ  2010;341:c6576 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Primary Care: Reflections of Father Christmas’s GP
Quentin Shaw
BMJ  2010;341:c6782 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Surgery: Red for danger: the effects of red hair in surgical practice
Andrew L Cunningham, Christopher P Jones, James Ansell, Jonathan D Barry
BMJ  2010;341:c6931 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Surgery: Middle ear instrument nomenclature: a taxonomic approach
John S Phillips, Matthew J Mason, Heather Dixon
BMJ  2010;341:c5137 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Surgery: The IKEA pencil: a surprising find in the NHS
Karen A Eley, Stephen R Watt-Smith
BMJ  2010;341:c6595 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Reading between the Lines: How the growth of denialism undermines public health
Martin McKee, Pascal Diethelm
BMJ  2010;341:c6950 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Reading between the Lines: Integrative medicine and the point of credulity
John C McLachlan
BMJ  2010;341:c6979 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Reading between the Lines: On the impossibility of being expert
Alan G Fraser, Frank D Dunstan
BMJ  2010;341:c6815 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Reading Between the Lines: A dose by any other name would not sell as sweet
Rob Stepney
BMJ  2010;341:c6895 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Reading between the Lines: A Christmas tree cataract
Ebube E Obi, C Weir
BMJ  2010;341:c6644 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Reading between the Lines: Pie sharing in complex clinical collaborations: a piece of cake?
K T Buddingh, G M van Dam, L M A Crane
BMJ  2010;341:c6641 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Whodunit: The rise and fall of celebrity pathology
Ian Burney, Neil Pemberton
BMJ  2010;341:c6500 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Whodunit: Dr Watson: a regular reader of the British Medical Journal
C Ross Philpot
BMJ  2010;341:c6898 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: Whodunit: Agatha Christie’s doctors
Herbert G Kinnell
BMJ  2010;341:c6438 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: History: Multidisciplinary medical identification of a French king’s head (Henri IV)
Philippe Charlier, Isabelle Huynh-Charlier, Joel Poupon, Christine Keyser, Eloise Lancelot, Dominique Favier, Jean-Noel Vignal, Philippe Sorel, Pierre F Chaillot, Rosa Boano, Renato Grilletto, Sylvaine Delacourte, Jean-Michel Duriez, Yves Loublier, Paola Campos, Eske Willerslev, M T P Gilbert, Leslie Eisenberg, Bertrand Ludes, Geoffroy Lorin de la Grandmaison
BMJ  2010;341:c6805 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: History: Mozart’s 140 causes of death and 27 mental disorders
Lucien R Karhausen
BMJ  2010;341:c6789 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: History: A shopping list of doctors
C John Scott
BMJ  2010;341:c5727 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: History: Teapots: the short and stout physicians’ friends
Katharine Cranfield
BMJ  2010;341:c6738 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: History: Acting on evidence
John Powell
BMJ  2010;341:c5168 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: History: "In consequence of enemy action": British medical students in North American medical schools, 1939–45
Stephen T Casper
BMJ  2010;341:c7041 (Published )
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Christmas 2010: History: The first 15: New Zealand doctors and rugby
Sanket Srinivasa, Yu-Mwee Tan, Andrew Connolly, Andrew G Hill
BMJ  2010;341:c5127 (Published )
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