From the editor

Kamran Abbasi

The magic of medicine
J R Soc Med 101(9): 431; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008/08k017 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

Elizabeth Koshy and Christopher Millett

The ‘Quality and Outcomes Framework’: improving care, but are all patients benefiting?
J R Soc Med 101(9): 432-433; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070243 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letter

Nick Ross

Evidence-based medicine
J R Soc Med 101(9): 434; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k018 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

J Mark Aitken

Private practice: Bevan's bogey
J R Soc Med 101(9): 434; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k013 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frank Loeffler

Dazed by Darzi
J R Soc Med 101(9): 434-435; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k014 [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Squire Kirkham

The NHS at 60
J R Soc Med 101(9): 435; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k015 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Schubert

Errors in text
J R Soc Med 101(9): 435; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k016 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Rubin Minhas and Kiran CR Patel

From rationing to rational: the evolving status of NICE
J R Soc Med 101(9): 436-442; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080167 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel K Sokol

Medicine as performance: what can magicians teach doctors?
J R Soc Med 101(9): 443-446; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080133 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anthea Colledge, Josip Car, Ailsa Donnelly, and Azeem Majeed

Health information for patients: time to look beyond patient information leaflets
J R Soc Med 101(9): 447-453; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080149 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Series

Judith Rowbotham and Paul Clayton

An unsuitable and degraded diet? Part three: Victorian consumption patterns and their health benefits
J R Soc Med 101(9): 454-462; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080114 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Kishwar Sultana and Aziz Sheikh

Most UK datasets of routinely collected health statistics fail to collect information on ethnicity and religion
J R Soc Med 101(9): 463-465; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080007 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nazim Ghouri, Julia Hippisley-Cox, John Newton, and Aziz Sheikh

Trends in the epidemiology and prescribing of medication for allergic rhinitis in England
J R Soc Med 101(9): 466-472; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080096 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand Round

Mahinda Yogarajah, Jade Soh, Breck Lord, Nicholas Goddard, and Richard Stratton

Palmar fasciitis and polyarthritis syndrome: a sign of ovarian malignancy
J R Soc Med 101(9): 473-475; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080060 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Arthur Boylston and AE Williams

Zabdiel Boylston's evaluation of inoculation against smallpox
J R Soc Med 101(9): 476-477; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k008 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Richard Smith

Oh, I’ll do it tomorrow
J R Soc Med 101(9): 478; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k012 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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