From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

A new world order for medical journals
J R Soc Med 102(1): 1; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k001 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

Shahrad Taheri, Harish Kumar, Sue Bridgwater, and Anthony Barnett

Bariatric surgery – not to be taken lightly
J R Soc Med 102(1): 2-3; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080355 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elizabeth Wager and Kamran Abbasi

Medical editors and trial reporting: A betrayal of patient care
J R Soc Med 102(1): 4-5; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k030 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letter

Bill Davidson

Bless you! Sneezing and the seven deadly sins
J R Soc Med 102(1): 6; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k041 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Nick Bosanquet and Karol Sikora

Cancer care urgently needs a real reform engine
J R Soc Med 102(1): 7-10; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080334 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joshua M Brostoff

Re-examining examination: misconceptions in clinical medicine
J R Soc Med 102(1): 11-15; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080330 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review

David A Alexander and Susan Klein

Kidnapping and hostage-taking: a review of effects, coping and resilience
J R Soc Med 102(1): 16-21; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080347 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research

S Godden, D McCoy, and AM Pollock

Policy on the rebound: trends and causes of delayed discharges in the NHS
J R Soc Med 102(1): 22-28; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080202 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand Round

A Uddin, K West, and J Barratt

Lumps, bumps and vasculitis
J R Soc Med 102(1): 29-31; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070391 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

Jeffrey K Aronson and Manoj Ramachandran

The diagnosis of art: Van Gogh and male pattern baldness
J R Soc Med 102(1): 32-33; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k023 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Edward J Huth

Transatlantic ideas on the philosophy of therapeutics in the middle of the 19th century
J R Soc Med 102(1): 34-39; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k032 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Andrew Papanikitas

Doctors should do as they're told – myth or reality?
J R Soc Med 102(1): 40-42; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080370 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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