From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Are working hours more frightening than swine flu?
J R Soc Med 102(5): 167; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k030 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

Mark Aitken

Do the British value continuity of care?
J R Soc Med 102(5): 168—169; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090119 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alan Maynard

Free drugs for all?
J R Soc Med 102(5): 170—171; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k026 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letter

Gabriele Medley

Change, we have to
J R Soc Med 102(5): 172; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k025 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Heather Goodare

Cancer care
J R Soc Med 102(5): 172; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k027 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Peter M Hockey and Martin N Marshall

Doctors and quality improvement
J R Soc Med 102(5): 173—176; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090065 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Neil H Cox

‘The Health of the Nation’ – an unattainable skin cancer target predictably remains beyond reach
J R Soc Med 102(5): 177—180; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090033 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Series

Brian Hurwitz and Aziz Sheikh

Medical fallibility – cultural recognition and representation
J R Soc Med 102(5): 181—185; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090058 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review

Jeremy Howick, Paul Glasziou, and Jeffrey K Aronson

The evolution of evidence hierarchies: what can Bradford Hill's ‘guidelines for causation’ contribute?
J R Soc Med 102(5): 186—194; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090020 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Andrew A Mallick and Finbar JK O'Callaghan

Research governance delays for a multicentre non-interventional study
J R Soc Med 102(5): 195—198; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.080397 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand Round

Bhushan Joshi, Daniel Jones, Andrew Rochford, and Louise Giblin

Hypothyroidism and associated acute renal failure
J R Soc Med 102(5): 199—200; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080302 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Media

J Barry Ferriss

Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: the first picture?
J R Soc Med 102(5): 201—202; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090023 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Scott H Podolsky

Jesse Bullowa, specific treatment for pneumonia, and the development of the controlled clinical trial
J R Soc Med 102(5): 203—207; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k003 [Full Text] [PDF]  

21st century medicine

My working day: Samiran Nundy
J R Soc Med 102(5): 208—209; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k014 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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