Editorials

Carolyn Schwartz

Decision making at the end of life: shifting sands
J R Soc Med 98(7): 297-298; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.297 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Issue of the Day

S M Yentis

The use of patients for learning and maintaining practical skills
J R Soc Med 98(7): 299-302; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.299 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Special Articles

Abhijit Chaudhuri and Peter O Behan

Multiple sclerosis: looking beyond autoimmunity
J R Soc Med 98(7): 303-306; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.303 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Practice

Jawahar Kalra, K Lorne Massey, and Amith Mulla

Disclosure of medical error: policies and practice
J R Soc Med 98(7): 307-309; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.307 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Khalid A Gaber, Clive R McGavin, and Irving P Wells

Lateral chest X-ray for physicians
J R Soc Med 98(7): 310-312; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.310 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Case Reports

Sohail Qaisar, Faizel Osman, and Michael Pitt

Resolution of pericardial effusion after removal of ovarian fibroma— a Meigs'-like syndrome
J R Soc Med 98(7): 313-314; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.313 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Olatunde Falode, Ian Hunt, and Christopher P Young

Chylothorax after coronary artery bypass surgery
J R Soc Med 98(7): 314-315; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.314 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Aye Nyunt, Narinder Kochar, Daniella T Pilz, Jeremy G C Kingham, and M Keston Jones

Adult cirrhosis due to untreated congenital hypopituitarism
J R Soc Med 98(7): 316-317; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.316 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Arlene Boroda and Wendy Gray

Hair analysis for drugs in child abuse
J R Soc Med 98(7): 318-319; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.318 [Full Text] [PDF]  

M J Murray, J L Brain, and J S Ahluwalia

Neonatal pleural effusion and insertion of intercostal drain into the liver
J R Soc Med 98(7): 319-320; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.319 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Siew Chien Ng and Paolo Muiesan

Spontaneous liver rupture in Ehlers–Danlos syndrome type IV
J R Soc Med 98(7): 320-322; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.320 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Personal papers

Michael O'Donnell

Doctors as performance artists
J R Soc Med 98(7): 323-324; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.323 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Centenary

David R Hadden

100 years of hormonology: a view from No. 1 Wimpole Street
J R Soc Med 98(7): 325-326; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.325 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical History

Raymond Hurt

Modern cardiopulmonary resuscitation—not so new after all
J R Soc Med 98(7): 327-331; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.327 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Book of the Month

James Le Fanu

Confronting an Ill Society
J R Soc Med 98(7): 332-333; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.332 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Books

C D Shee

Oxford Textbook of Medicine
J R Soc Med 98(7): 333-334; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.333 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin Elliott

Paediatric Oncology
J R Soc Med 98(7): 334-335; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.334 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jonathan Goddard

The Knife Man: the Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
J R Soc Med 98(7): 335; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.335 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Alastair D Smith

The liver in metabolic syndrome
J R Soc Med 98(7): 336; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.336 [Full Text] [PDF]  

S M White and T M Palfreman

Nicotinic antagonists and nerve gas poisoning
J R Soc Med 98(7): 336; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.336-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christian Fras

Finger deformities in Renaissance art
J R Soc Med 98(7): 337; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.337 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Christos Papaloucas

Autosurgery in women
J R Soc Med 98(7): 337-338; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.337-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hugh Seeley

Taking the sting out of needles
J R Soc Med 98(7): 338; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.338 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rodney Price

Parkinsonism in a ham-seller
J R Soc Med 98(7): 338; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.338-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kalman Kafetz

Integrated teams
J R Soc Med 98(7): 338; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.7.338-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

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