From the editor

Kamran Abbasi

Electronic responses: a newer, faster option for Drs Angry, Delighted and Disgruntled
J R Soc Med 101(6): 267; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.081021 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

TJ Coats and S Goodacre

Time for D in R&D?
J R Soc Med 101(6): 268-269; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080116 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edward Peile

A take on Tooke
J R Soc Med 101(6): 270-271; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.081020 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letter

Julian Archer

mini-PAT (Peer Assessment Tool): a well kept secret?
J R Soc Med 101(6): 272; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080055 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Selena Gray

Measuring productivity
J R Soc Med 101(6): 272; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080122 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Erik Mayer, Omar Faiz, Thanos Athanasiou, and Charles Vincent

Measuring and enhancing elective service performance in NHS operating theatres: an overview
J R Soc Med 101(6): 273-277; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080130 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Donald R Coid and Huw Davies

Structural change in health care: what’s the attraction?
J R Soc Med 101(6): 278-281; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080107 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Series

Paul Clayton and Judith Rowbotham

An unsuitable and degraded diet? Part one: public health lessons from the mid-Victorian working class diet
J R Soc Med 101(6): 282-289; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080112 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review

Suzie Key, Julian K-C Ma, and Pascal MW Drake

Genetically modified plants and human health
J R Soc Med 101(6): 290-298; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070372 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research

Allan Hackshaw, Hannah Farrant, Sue Bulley, Michael J Seckl, and Jonathan A Ledermann

Setting up non-commercial clinical trials takes too long in the UK: findings from a prospective study
J R Soc Med 101(6): 299-304; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070373 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ross MacKenzie, Simon Chapman, Glenn Salkeld, and Simon Holding

Media influence on Herceptin subsidization in Australia: application of the rule of rescue?
J R Soc Med 101(6): 305-312; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070289 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul Whelan, Maja Meerten, Rahul Rao, Peter Jarrett, Anandamurugan Muthukumaraswamy, and Dinesh Bhugra

Stress, lies and red tape: the views, success rates and stress levels of the MTAS cohort
J R Soc Med 101(6): 313-318; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070449 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand round

A Sinha, K M Bradley, J Steatham, and A Weaver

Asymmetric breast uptake of radioiodine in a patient with thyroid malignancy: metastases or not?
J R Soc Med 101(6): 319-320; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080040 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Jimmy Volmink

The willow as a Hottentot (Khoikhoi) remedy for rheumatic fever
J R Soc Med 101(6): 321-323; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.081007 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

EKF Lacey and NMP Clarke

The Big Idea: Paediatric oncological pathology – a new phenomenon
J R Soc Med 101(6): 324-326; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070207 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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