Editorials

Barbara Gomes and Irene J Higginson

Home or hospital? Choices at the end of life
J R Soc Med 97(9): 413-414; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.413 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Medicine and Law

Alec Buchanan

Mental capacity, legal competence and consent to treatment
J R Soc Med 97(9): 415-420; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.415 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Review Articles

E Suresh

Diagnosis of early rheumatoid arthritis: what the non-specialist needs to know
J R Soc Med 97(9): 421-424; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.421 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raymond D'Souza and Jeremy Powell-Tuck

Glutamine supplements in the critically ill
J R Soc Med 97(9): 425-427; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.425 [Full Text] [PDF]  

National Health Service

Sheila Payne, Chris Kerr, Sheila Hawker, David Seamark, Carol Davis, Helen Roberts, Nicola Jarrett, Paul Roderick, and Helen Smith

Community hospitals: an under-recognized resource for palliative care
J R Soc Med 97(9): 428-431; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.428 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

S Ramakrishnan, J Y Yiannakou, W R Ellis, and I M Bain

Assessment of patient pain at colonoscopy: are nurses better than endoscopists?
J R Soc Med 97(9): 432-433; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.432 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Case Reports

Kenneth Hodson, Umakant Dave, and Ann Lewis

Meningococcal chest pain
J R Soc Med 97(9): 434-435; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.434 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Kathryn Goodyear, Diane Laws, and Jonathan Turner

Bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax in a cannabis smoker
J R Soc Med 97(9): 435-436; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.435 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hiten G Sheth and Timothy J Sullivan

Optic neuropathy and orbital inflammatory mass after wasp stings
J R Soc Med 97(9): 436-437; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.436 [Full Text] [PDF]  

G S Ang, C Goldsmith, R Shenoy, N Astbury, and R Burton

'Football' contact lenses— an own goal
J R Soc Med 97(9): 437-438; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.437 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

T Richards, M Strabac, and L Ludeman

Vasculitic appendicitis
J R Soc Med 97(9): 439-440; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.439 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

O Awotesu, T Missotten, M C Pitcher, W A Lynn, and S Lightman

Uveitis in a patient receiving rifabutin for Crohn's disease
J R Soc Med 97(9): 440-441; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.440 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jac Ciampolini, John Timperley, and Marina Morgan

Prosthetic joint infection by cat scratch
J R Soc Med 97(9): 441-442; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.441 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nicola de Savary, Richard Lee, and Bijay Vaidya

Severe hypothyroidism after thalidomide treatment
J R Soc Med 97(9): 443; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.443 [Full Text] [PDF]  

W V Garrett, J R I Brown, D Pickering, and S M Andrews

Critical limb ischaemia associated with chemotherapy for breast cancer
J R Soc Med 97(9): 444-445; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.444 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Medical History

A N Williams and J Williams

'Proper to the duty of a chirurgeon': Ambroise Paré and sixteenth century paediatric surgery
J R Soc Med 97(9): 446-449; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.446 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Book of the Month

Deirdre Hine

Public Health at the Crossroads: Achievements and Prospects
J R Soc Med 97(9): 450-451; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.450 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Books

Imre Loefler

Principles of Medicine in Africa Third edition; Textbook of Tropical Surgery
J R Soc Med 97(9): 451-452; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.451 [Full Text] [PDF]  

J Richard Smith

Gynaeoncology Palliative Care Consultations
J R Soc Med 97(9): 452-453; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.452 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark Hohenberg

The Epidemiological Approach
J R Soc Med 97(9): 453; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.453 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alastair Kent

Is it in your Genes? The Influence of Genes on Common Disorders and Diseases that affect you and your Family
J R Soc Med 97(9): 453; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.453-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carl Philpott

Investigative Rhinology
J R Soc Med 97(9): 453-454; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.453-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Vassallo

Medical Ethics and the Elderly Second edition
J R Soc Med 97(9): 454; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.454 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Lack of confidentiality with the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)
J R Soc Med 97(9): 455; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.455 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Prodip Das-Purkayastha, Katie McLeod, and Richard Canter

Specialist medical abbreviations as a foreign language
J R Soc Med 97(9): 456; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.456 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

John Peniket

Hope and despair
J R Soc Med 97(9): 456; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.456-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Perkins

Death by footwear
J R Soc Med 97(9): 456-457; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.456-b [Full Text]  

Ross Kessel

Tuberculosis sanatoria regimens in the 1940s
J R Soc Med 97(9): 457; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.457 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stuart Cook

Basic training in ophthalmology
J R Soc Med 97(9): 457; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.457-a [Full Text]  

Francis Robicsek

The well-managed waiting list
J R Soc Med 97(9): 457-458; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.457-b [Full Text]  

Corrections

Needle-stick injuries in the National Health Service: a culture of silence
J R Soc Med 97(9): 458; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.9.458 [Full Text]  

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