From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Children, doctors, trials: a survival game
J R Soc Med 100(2): 59; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.59 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Erle C H Lim and Raymond C S Seet

What is the place for placebo in the management of psychogenic disease?
J R Soc Med 100(2): 60-61; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.60 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine M Thompson and Amer J Durrani

An increasing need for early detection of body dysmorphic disorder by all specialties
J R Soc Med 100(2): 61-62; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.61 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Robert L Leon

Hubris and Nemesis in heads of government
J R Soc Med 100(2): 63; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.63 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Malcolm Potts

Overconfidence in warfare
J R Soc Med 100(2): 63-64; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.63-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

J P Griffin

Clinical studies in medical journals
J R Soc Med 100(2): 64; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.64 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Bagshaw

Commercial aircraft cabin altitude
J R Soc Med 100(2): 64; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.64-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brennan Wilson

Forced change of language
J R Soc Med 100(2): 64-65; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.64-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark Aitken

Inconvenient truths
J R Soc Med 100(2): 65; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.65 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Horobin

‘A brief history of homeopathy’
J R Soc Med 100(2): 65-66; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.65-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard Walden

Gender bias in research
J R Soc Med 100(2): 66; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.66 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gaurav Kumar, Furrat Amen, and Dev Roy

Normal hearing tests: is a further appointment really necessary?
J R Soc Med 100(2): 66; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.66-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Black

Bacillary Dysentery in Egypt, 1943-1944
J R Soc Med 100(2): 66-67; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.66-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

George I Varughese, Divakar Jammalamadaka, and Abd A Tahrani

Optimizing diabetes care: perspectives from a practical view point
J R Soc Med 100(2): 67; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.67 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert Arnott

The diagnosis of art: Diastrophic dysplasia and Hephaistos
J R Soc Med 100(2): 67; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.67-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biju Jose and A James

Challenges of treating thyroid disease: the need for a revisit
J R Soc Med 100(2): 68; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.68 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vincent C Y Tang and Elaine W Y Lee

Training tomorrow's surgeons
J R Soc Med 100(2): 68; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.68-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corrections

W G Donaldson

Meckel's diverticulum
J R Soc Med 100(2): 69; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.69 [Full Text] [PDF]  

J K Anand

Etymology of the word ‘Bimaristan’
J R Soc Med 100(2): 69; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.69-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essays

Linda Shields and Roger Watson

The demise of nursing in the United Kingdom: a warning for medicine
J R Soc Med 100(2): 70-74; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.70 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Minoo Irani, Michael Dixon, and John D Dean

Care closer to home: past mistakes, future opportunities
J R Soc Med 100(2): 75-77; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.75 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeffrey Braithwaite, Johanna I Westbrook, and Rick A Iedema

Health care participants' dualism: are new sub-species evolving?
J R Soc Med 100(2): 78-80; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.78 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher Bass and Peter W Halligan

Illness related deception: social or psychiatric problem?
J R Soc Med 100(2): 81-84; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.81 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Series

Nick Black

Church, Crown and City: changing fortunes in controlling health care
J R Soc Med 100(2): 85-89; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.85 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Reviews

K J van Stralen, E M Terveer, C J M Doggen, F M Helmerhorst, and J P Vandenbroucke

The tortuous history of the implementation of early ambulation after delivery
J R Soc Med 100(2): 90-96; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.90 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Owen A Anderson and I Mike J Wearne

Informed consent for elective surgery—what is best practice?
J R Soc Med 100(2): 97-100; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.97 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research

Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Timothy M Brock, Martin S Dennis, Peter A G Sandercock, Philip M White, and Charles Warlow

Research governance impediments to clinical trials: a retrospective survey
J R Soc Med 100(2): 101-104; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand round

M J Steward, D P D'Cruz, L Lang-Lazdunski, and J Chambers

Fever, haemoptysis and a mass in the heart
J R Soc Med 100(2): 105-106; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.105 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

A Mark Clarfield

Novel Medicine: Love in the Time of Cholera
J R Soc Med 100(2): 107; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.107 [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

M R Lee

The miracle at St Alfege's: seventy years on
J R Soc Med 100(2): 108-109; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.108 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Imre Loefler

Of saving children
J R Soc Med 100(2): 110-111; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.2.110 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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