Editorials

Yvonne Doyle, Sadru Kheraj, and Mark Ashworth

Performance for health
J R Soc Med 98(2): 47-48; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.47 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review articles

Martin Wiese, Catherine Armitage, Jo Delaforce, and Jan Welch

Emergency care for complainants of sexual assault
J R Soc Med 98(2): 49-53; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.49 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Practice

Christopher J Hammond and Tajek B Hassan

Screening for pulmonary embolism with a D-dimer assay: do we still need to assess clinical probability as well?
J R Soc Med 98(2): 54-58; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.54 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Case reports

J F Fairhead, D Phillips, and A Handa

Embolic spinal cord infarction as a presentation of abdominal aortic aneurysm
J R Soc Med 98(2): 59-60; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.59 [Full Text] [PDF]  

A Fowler, P Dargan, and A Jones

Puzzling hypercalcaemia: sarcoidosis without lung involvement
J R Soc Med 98(2): 60-61; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.60 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Sanjay A Pai and M G Bhat

A diabetic breast lump
J R Soc Med 98(2): 61-62; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.61 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Tarek A-Z K Gaber and Sailaja Mannemela

Botulinum toxin for muscle spasm after tetanus
J R Soc Med 98(2): 63; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.63 [Full Text] [PDF]  

S J Hanna, A Muneer, S B Coghill, and M A W Miller

Ganglioneuromas in the adult scrotum
J R Soc Med 98(2): 63-64; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.63-a [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Chern Beverly Brenda Lim, Vikas Khanduja, Jo-Anne Chin Aleong, and Michael Douek

A bloody mess: scalp lump misidentified
J R Soc Med 98(2): 64-65; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.64 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Harutomo Hasegawa, Gurjinder S Sandhu, Andrew V Thillainayagam, Nicola H Strickland, and Simon D Taylor-Robinson

A mediastinal mass in end-stage liver disease
J R Soc Med 98(2): 65-66; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.65 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Education

Samy A Azer

The qualities of a good teacher: how can they be acquired and sustained?
J R Soc Med 98(2): 67-69; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.67 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical History

Andrew Steptoe

John Moore: eighteenth century physician, bearleader and social observer
J R Soc Med 98(2): 70-74; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.70 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Medicine and art

Saad Shaikh and James Leonard-Amodeo

The deviating eyes of Michelangelo’s David
J R Soc Med 98(2): 75-76; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.75 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Personal papers

Peter McDonald

Colorectal quotations
J R Soc Med 98(2): 77-78; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.77 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book of the month

Sara Booth

Management of Advanced Disease
J R Soc Med 98(2): 79-80; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.79 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Books

John Butler

NHS plc: the Privatisation of Our Health Care
J R Soc Med 98(2): 80-81; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.80 [Full Text] [PDF]  

J D Warren

The Oxford Companion to the Mind
J R Soc Med 98(2): 81-82; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.81 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roger Worthington

Medicolegal Essentials in Healthcare 2nd edition
J R Soc Med 98(2): 82; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.82 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Kieran Walsh

Racism in the National Health Service: lessons from the past
J R Soc Med 98(2): 83; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.83 [Full Text] [PDF]  

R J Walden

Statins and micronutrients: unanswered questions
J R Soc Med 98(2): 83; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.83-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christine Soon and A Ilchyshyn

Methotrexate toxicity induced by acute renal failure
J R Soc Med 98(2): 83-84; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.83-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alan J Hakim, Rodney Grahame, Paul Norris, and Colin Hopper

Local anaesthetic failure in joint hypermobility syndrome
J R Soc Med 98(2): 84-85; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.84 [Full Text] [PDF]  

K H Ravi Kumar and Ali Thwaini

Appendicitis after appendicectomy
J R Soc Med 98(2): 85; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.85 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hutan Ashrafian

Familial proptosis and obesity in the Ptolemies
J R Soc Med 98(2): 85-86; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.85-a [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Suneeta Kochhar and Stephen French

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in intensive care units
J R Soc Med 98(2): 86; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.86 [Full Text] [PDF]  

J K Anand

Compulsory helmets for cyclists
J R Soc Med 98(2): 86; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.86-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

E N Wardle

Coxibs and caution
J R Soc Med 98(2): 86; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.86-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Horton A Johnson, W Hijmans, and J Dequeker

The Renaissance fifth finger • Authors’ response
J R Soc Med 98(2): 87; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.87 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Corrections

Incidence of fatigue symptoms and diagnoses presenting in UK primary care from 1990 to 2001
J R Soc Med 98(2): 88; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.2.88 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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