From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Is medicine still a profession?
J R Soc Med 102(9): 353; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k051 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

Imogen Evans and Hazel Thornton

Transparency in numbers: the dangers of statistical illiteracy
J R Soc Med 102(9): 354—356; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090214 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letter

Sarah Fox, Vidhya Nair, and Nigel Dudley

Admitting to mistakes in the medical literature
J R Soc Med 102(9): 357; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090285 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chris Munsch

British surgeons’ experiences of mandatory online workplace-based assessment – reply to authors
J R Soc Med 102(9): 357—358; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090278 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Gooderham

The distinction between gross negligence and recklessness in English criminal law
J R Soc Med 102(9): 358; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k048 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arthur R Jones

Data mining can support quality assurance
J R Soc Med 102(9): 358—359; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090216 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Dornhorst and Paul Chester

Research governance approval delays studies
J R Soc Med 102(9): 359; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090223 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ethan Taub

Sir Vidia's ‘racism’
J R Soc Med 102(9): 359; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k049 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Sowby

Maynard made me laugh
J R Soc Med 102(9): 359; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k047 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Neil Singh

On a wing and a prayer: surgeons learning from the aviation industry
J R Soc Med 102(9): 360—364; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090139 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Bewley

A modest proposal for the medical profession to introduce humane and civilized executions
J R Soc Med 102(9): 365—368; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090015 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research

Christopher Millett, Alex Bottle, Anthea Ng, Vasa Curcin, Mariam Molokhia, Sonia Saxena, and Azeem Majeed

Pay for perfomance and the quality of diabetes management in individuals with and without co-morbid medical conditions
J R Soc Med 102(9): 369—377; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090171 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hilary Pinnock, Guro Huby, Alison Tierney, Sonya Hamilton, Alison Powell, Tara Kielmann, and Aziz Sheikh

Is multidisciplinary teamwork the key? A qualitative study of the development of respiratory services in the UK
J R Soc Med 102(9): 378—390; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.080356 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

Jeffrey K Aronson and Manoj Ramachandran

The diagnosis of art: Durer's squint – and Shakespeare's?
J R Soc Med 102(9): 391—393; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k043 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Wendy Moore

John Hunter: learning from natural experiments, ‘placebos’, and the state of mind of a patient in the 18th century
J R Soc Med 102(9): 394—396; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k037 [Full Text] [PDF]  

21st century medicine

My working day: Sir Liam Donaldson
J R Soc Med 102(9): 397—398; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k044 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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