Editorials

Robin Fox

Efficiency in the NHS
J R Soc Med 95(12): 579; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.579 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review articles

Jeremy Gibson and Andrew Frank

Supporting individuals with disabling multiple sclerosis
J R Soc Med 95(12): 580-586; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.580 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

D Lawes and P B Boulos

Advances in the management of rectal cancer
J R Soc Med 95(12): 587-590; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.587 [Full Text] [PDF]  

B M Evans

What does brain damage tell us about the mechanisms of sleep?
J R Soc Med 95(12): 591-597; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.591 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

National Health Service

Mahesh Ramchandani, Salman Mirza, Ash Sharma, and Graham Kirkby

Pooled cataract waiting lists: views of hospital consultants, general practitioners and patients
J R Soc Med 95(12): 598-600; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.598 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elizabeth Jackson and James Warner

How much do doctors know about consent and capacity?
J R Soc Med 95(12): 601-603; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.601 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Practice

H R H Patel, C N Luxman, T S Bailey, J D M Brunning, D Zemmel, L K Morrell, M S Nathan, and R A Miller

Outpatient clinic: where is the delay?
J R Soc Med 95(12): 604-605; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.604 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Personal papers

J G Jones

The Hypoxia Hilton: recollections of a visit, with a postscript by J W Severinghaus on mechanisms of acute mountain sickness
J R Soc Med 95(12): 606-608; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.606 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Meetings

G R Durrant

Bioterrorism: the current threat
J R Soc Med 95(12): 609-611; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.609 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Education

John Bache, Jeremy Brown, and David Graham

In-training assessment for specialist registrars: views of trainees and trainers in the Mersey Deanery
J R Soc Med 95(12): 612-613; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.612 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case reports

William Ignace Wei, Flora Ling Yuen Wong, and Wai Kuen Ho

A chopstick in the nose
J R Soc Med 95(12): 614-615; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.614 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Richard J Maclsaac, Ego Seeman, and George Jerums

Seizures after alendronate
J R Soc Med 95(12): 615-616; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.615 [Full Text] [PDF]  

K Osman, S Wemyss-Holden, and A Miller

A chylous rupture
J R Soc Med 95(12): 616-617; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.616 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Medical History

Thomas F Baskett

Edward Rigby (1747-1821) of Norwich and his Essay on the Uterine Haemorrhage
J R Soc Med 95(12): 618-622; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.618 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Book of the month

Julian Tudor Hart

The Autonomous Patient: Ending Paternalism in Medical Care
J R Soc Med 95(12): 623-624; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.623 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Books

Gillian Tindall

Ethical Dilemmas in Reproduction
J R Soc Med 95(12): 624-625; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.624 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laurie Montgomery Irvine

Risk Management and Litigation in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
J R Soc Med 95(12): 625-626; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.625 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arthur Hollman

An Ear to the Chest: an Illustrated History of the Evolution of the Stethoscope
J R Soc Med 95(12): 626-627; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.626 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sarah Fowler

Elderly Medicine: A Training Guide
J R Soc Med 95(12): 627; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.627 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Theo Fenton

Communicating Without Speech: Practical Augmentative and Alternative Communication
J R Soc Med 95(12): 627-628; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.627-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alan Emery

The Origin of Species Revisited: a Victorian who Anticipated Modern Developments in Darwin's Theory
J R Soc Med 95(12): 628-629; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.628 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

G E Berrios

Bioterrorism
J R Soc Med 95(12): 630; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.630 [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Seamer

Michelangelo and medicine
J R Soc Med 95(12): 630; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.630-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ranan DasGupta

Michelangelo and medicine
J R Soc Med 95(12): 630; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.630-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frances Fry, Joanna Ibarra, Jane Smith, and Clarice Wickenden

Wet combing to eradicate head lice
J R Soc Med 95(12): 630-631; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.630-c [Full Text] [PDF]  

R Bryant

Immunotherapy for cancer
J R Soc Med 95(12): 631; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.631 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Margaret M Stark, A R W Forrest, and A Oyefeseo

Drug-facilitated sexual assault
J R Soc Med 95(12): 631; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.631-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Johnny Sachs

HIV/AIDS in developing countries
J R Soc Med 95(12): 631-632; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.631-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rex Lawrie

Neuromuscular blocking drugs
J R Soc Med 95(12): 632; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.12.632 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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