Editorials

G J Murphy and G D Angelini

Coronary artery bypass grafting on the beating heart: changing the paradigm
J R Soc Med 97(7): 313-316; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.313 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Imti Choonara

Direct reporting of suspected adverse drug reactions by patients
J R Soc Med 97(7): 316-317; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.316 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case II
J R Soc Med 97(7): 317; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.317 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review articles

Raymond D'Souza and Graham R Foster

Diagnosis and treatment of chronic hepatitis B
J R Soc Med 97(7): 318-321; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.318 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Practice

Steven R Peacey

Routine biochemistry in suspected vitamin D deficiency
J R Soc Med 97(7): 322-325; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.322 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

B Elmiyeh, I S Whitaker, M J James, C A A Chahal, A Galea, and K Alshafi

Needle-stick injuries in the National Health Service: a culture of silence
J R Soc Med 97(7): 326-327; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.326 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Original articles

Brian Crichton

Keep in a cool place: exposure of medicines to high temperatures in general practice during a British heatwave
J R Soc Med 97(7): 328-329; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.328 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case reports

Edward Walter, Nicholas Gibbins, Anthony Vandersteen, Lucy Kinton, Peter Wark, and Max Jonas

Hyperkalaemic ascending paralysis
J R Soc Med 97(7): 330-331; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.330 [Full Text] [PDF]  

R A Badawi, J Birns, D J Ramsey, and L Kalra

Hiccups and bilateral carotid artery dissection
J R Soc Med 97(7): 331-332; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.331 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

S Kumar

Epilepsia partialis continua stopped by insulin
J R Soc Med 97(7): 332-333; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.332 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Altaf K Awan, David A L Macafee, and Richard I Hall

Intestinal obstruction in an adult with Down's syndrome
J R Soc Med 97(7): 334-335; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.334 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

S Olsen and J Gilbert

Cytomegalovirus infection in Crohn's colitis
J R Soc Med 97(7): 335-336; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.335 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Teng Teng Chung, Nada Chowdhury, Kim Piper, and Tahseen A Chowdhury

Pyrexia and lymphadenopathy in a south Asian woman
J R Soc Med 97(7): 336-338; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.336 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R C Stockdale and C K Biswas

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy with ataxia
J R Soc Med 97(7): 338-339; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.338 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Special Article

Philip E M Smith, Geraint Fuller, and Frank Dunstan

Scoring posters at scientific meetings: first impressions count
J R Soc Med 97(7): 340-341; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.340 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Medicine and art

Jean-Yves Maigne, Gilles Chatellier, and Hélène Norlöff

Extra vertebrae in Ingres' La Grande Odalisque
J R Soc Med 97(7): 342-344; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.342 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Medical History

E H Jellinek

Chronic alpha-irradiation of the nervous system from thorium dioxide
J R Soc Med 97(7): 345-349; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.345 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Raymond Hurt

Tuberculosis sanatorium regimen in the 1940s: a patient's personal diary
J R Soc Med 97(7): 350-353; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.350 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Personal papers

Vivien Sleight

Hope and despair
J R Soc Med 97(7): 354; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.354 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book of the month

Carl May

Medicines out of Control
J R Soc Med 97(7): 355-356; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.355 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Books

Bee Wee

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine.
J R Soc Med 97(7): 356-357; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.356 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Suzanne Kite

Caring for Dying People of Different Faiths.
J R Soc Med 97(7): 357; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.357 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Françoise Shenfield

Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health
J R Soc Med 97(7): 358; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.358 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

E Tierney

Patient-centred care after Shipman
J R Soc Med 97(7): 359; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.359 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Subha Thiyagesh, Claire Young, and Sean Spence

Feeling cold after donepezil
J R Soc Med 97(7): 359-360; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.359-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grant Williams

Language and brain injury
J R Soc Med 97(7): 360; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.360 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David L Boase

Treatment of age-related macular degeneration
J R Soc Med 97(7): 360; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.360-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew C Browning

Author's reply
J R Soc Med 97(7): 360; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.360-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Morris Greenberg

A cluster of deaths by footwear, 1894-1900
J R Soc Med 97(7): 360; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.360-c [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Tripp

Medically unexplained symptoms
J R Soc Med 97(7): 360-361; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.360-d [Full Text]  

H M C Corfield

Practice made perfect
J R Soc Med 97(7): 361; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.361 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alistair R Fielder, Philip Murray, Andrew Gibson, Martin Watson, Merrick Moseley, and Mary Boulton

Ophthalmic surgical training
J R Soc Med 97(7): 361; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.361-a [Full Text]  

Gisella Salerno, Ian Daniels, Matthew Croxford, Gina Brown, and R J Heald

Preoperative radiotherapy for rectal cancer
J R Soc Med 97(7): 361-362; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.361-b [Full Text]  

Corrections

An unusual paracetamol overdose
J R Soc Med 97(7): 362; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.7.362 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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