Editorials

Martin McKee, Elias Mossialos, and Anna Dixon

Paying for the NHS: are we asking the right question?
J R Soc Med 95(2): 59-60; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.59 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Issue of the day

John Gunn

No excuses
J R Soc Med 95(2): 61-63; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.61 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review articles

W A Clement, S Wilson, and B J Bingham

A guide to creating your own patient-oriented website
J R Soc Med 95(2): 64-67; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.64 [Full Text] [PDF]  

R Dinwiddie and W G Müller

Adolescent treatment compliance in asthma
J R Soc Med 95(2): 68-71; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.68 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alison J Gray

Stigma in psychiatry
J R Soc Med 95(2): 72-76; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.72 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Symposium

Brian Henderson

Oral bacterial disease and the science of cellular conversation
J R Soc Med 95(2): 77-80; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.77 [Full Text] [PDF]  

William Wade

Unculturable bacteria—the uncharacterized organisms that cause oral infections
J R Soc Med 95(2): 81-83; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.81 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Original articles

Ronan Hearne, Anita Connolly, and John Sheehan

Alcohol abuse: prevalence and detection in a general hospital
J R Soc Med 95(2): 84-87; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.84 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Meetings

Malcolm Morrison

Back pain—whose responsibility?
J R Soc Med 95(2): 88-89; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.88 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case reports

Yasir Abu-Omar and Pedro A Catarino

Progressive subcutaneous emphysema and respiratory arrest
J R Soc Med 95(2): 90-91; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.90 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

M Biswas, K Owen, and M K Jones

Hypocalcaemia during fusidic acid therapy
J R Soc Med 95(2): 91-93; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.91 [Full Text] [PDF]  

J K Lovett and P M Rothwell

Suicide in a patient with symptomatic carotid occlusion
J R Soc Med 95(2): 93-94; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.93 [Full Text] [PDF]  

P B Goodfellow and W E G Thomas

An umbilical nodule
J R Soc Med 95(2): 94-95; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.94 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Medical History

H M Kapadia

Sampson Gamgee: a great Birmingham surgeon
J R Soc Med 95(2): 96-100; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.96 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Medicine and art

Setu K Vora

Sherlock Holmes and a biological weapon
J R Soc Med 95(2): 101-103; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.101 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roland M Strauss, Helena Marzo-Ortega, and Andreas A Bruckner

Did the ‘Pigeon Chested Man’ have Marfan's syndrome?
J R Soc Med 95(2): 104; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.104 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Book of the month

T J David

The History of the Royal Society of Medicine
J R Soc Med 95(2): 105-107; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.105 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Books

Chris Nunn

Drug War Heresies: Learning from other Vices, Times and Places
J R Soc Med 95(2): 107-108; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.107 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gregory Y H Lip

Risk of Arrhythmia and Sudden Death
J R Soc Med 95(2): 108; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.108 [Full Text] [PDF]  

T J Ulahannan

Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values
J R Soc Med 95(2): 108-109; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.108-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susan Cooper

The Biology of the Skin
J R Soc Med 95(2): 109; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.109 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Bill Tucker

Clinical skills in final year medical students
J R Soc Med 95(2): 110; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.110 [Full Text] [PDF]  

A G Gordon

Extradural haematoma with sinusitis
J R Soc Med 95(2): 110; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.110-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nigel R T Pashley

Extradural haematoma with sinusitis
J R Soc Med 95(2): 110-111; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.110-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Javier Rodriguez-Vera and Emilio Pujol de la Llave

Inappropriate admissions
J R Soc Med 95(2): 111; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.111 [Full Text] [PDF]  

M I Aldoori

Missing vas
J R Soc Med 95(2): 111; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.111-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frank I Jackson

Missing vas
J R Soc Med 95(2): 111; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.111-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

E Scott Sills

11 September and after
J R Soc Med 95(2): 111-112; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.111-c [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gordon T Stewart

More on BSE/vCJD
J R Soc Med 95(2): 112; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.2.112 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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