From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

An NHS at the mercy of freakonomics
J R Soc Med 99(10): 483; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.483 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Harry Cayton

The alienating language of health care
J R Soc Med 99(10): 484; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.484 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Jeffrey M Drazen, Dr

Response to ‘Lapses at the NEJM’
J R Soc Med 99(10): 485; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.485 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard Smith

Author's response
J R Soc Med 99(10): 485; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.485-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shahirose Jessani and Joseph Tomson

Measuring healthcare outcomes—a race to utopia?
J R Soc Med 99(10): 486; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.486 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lisa Rodrigues

Patients, clients or just people?
J R Soc Med 99(10): 486; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.486-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Pete Abel and Aneez Esmail

Performance pay remuneration for consultants in the NHS: is the current system fair and fit for purpose?
J R Soc Med 99(10): 487-493; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.487 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Series

Kelley Lee and Kent Buse

Assuming the mantle: the balancing act facing the new WHO Director-General
J R Soc Med 99(10): 494-496; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.494 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michel Sidibe, Ilavenil Ramiah, and Kent Buse

The Global Fund at five: what next for universal access for HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria?
J R Soc Med 99(10): 497-500; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.497 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Reviews

Jayesh Sagar, Vikas Kumar, and D K Shah

Meckel's diverticulum: a systematic review
J R Soc Med 99(10): 501-505; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.501 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Duncan Chambers, Anne-Marie Bagnall, Susanne Hempel, and Carol Forbes

Interventions for the treatment, management and rehabilitation of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: an updated systematic review
J R Soc Med 99(10): 506-520; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.506 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

J S Sprigge, J Higgins, B Rice, L Tofield, and D Graham

Appraisal, assessment and career development for doctors in training: the Mersey Deanery personal development portfolio
J R Soc Med 99(10): 521-526; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.521 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand Round

Rowan Miller, Colette Griffin, Jagit Shah, Amrish Metha, and Pankaj Sharma

A young stroke: the need for vigilance
J R Soc Med 99(10): 527-528; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.527 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

Manoj Ramachandran and Jeffrey K Aronson

The diagnosis of art: Rachmaninov's hand span
J R Soc Med 99(10): 529-530; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.529 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Michael Fitzpatrick

Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
J R Soc Med 99(10): 530; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.530 [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

J Crofton

The MRC randomized trial of streptomycin and its legacy: a view from the clinical front line
J R Soc Med 99(10): 531-534; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.531 [Full Text] [PDF]  

EM Tansey

Philip Montagu D'Arcy Hart (1900-2006)
J R Soc Med 99(10): 535-537; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.535 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

John Main

Curb your enthusiasm: undignified examinations
J R Soc Med 99(10): 538; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.538 [Full Text] [PDF]  

P D O Davies

Tuberculosis in humans and animals: are we a threat to each other?
J R Soc Med 99(10): 539-540; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.10.539 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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