From the editor

Kamran Abbasi

Big Brother or new professionalism?
J R Soc Med 99(2): 47; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.47 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Richard Smith

Medical professionalism: out with the old and in with the new
J R Soc Med 99(2): 48-50; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.48 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alok Tiwari, Mohammed Moghal, and Luke Meleagros

Life threatening abdominal complications following cocaine abuse
J R Soc Med 99(2): 51-52; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.51 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Stephen W Brown

Hysteria
J R Soc Med 99(2): 53; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.53 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alice Wexler

Huntington disease
J R Soc Med 99(2): 53; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.53-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

James Cave

Walking the walk
J R Soc Med 99(2): 53-54; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.53-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Main

Walking the walk
J R Soc Med 99(2): 54; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.54 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine Edwards and Ali S M Jawad

History of brucellosis
J R Soc Med 99(2): 54; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.54-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Graham H Barker

Super hospitals
J R Soc Med 99(2): 54-55; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.54-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert L Bratman

Death to all clichés?
J R Soc Med 99(2): 55; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.55 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Julian Verbov

Death to some clichés
J R Soc Med 99(2): 55; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.55-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cyril Sanger

Semmelweis and his thesis
J R Soc Med 99(2): 55; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.55-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corrections

CORRECTION
J R Soc Med 99(2): 55; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.55-c [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essays

Jonathan Osborne

Modernizing medical careers: an open letter to Royal College Presidents
J R Soc Med 99(2): 56-57; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.56 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raj S Bhopal

The public health agenda and minority ethnic health: a reflection on priorities
J R Soc Med 99(2): 58-61; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.58 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David McDowell

The polymerase chain reaction patents: going, going,... still going
J R Soc Med 99(2): 62-64; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.62 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Series

Anne Slowther, Petra Boynton, and Sara Shaw

Research governance: ethical issues
J R Soc Med 99(2): 65-72; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.65 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chris Paton and Mohammed Al-Ubaydli

The Doctor's PDA and Smartphone Handbook The task list
J R Soc Med 99(2): 73-76; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.73 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Reviews

Carol Tan, N Hatam, and Tom Treasure

Bullous disease of the lung and cannabis smoking: insufficient evidence for a causative link
J R Soc Med 99(2): 77-80; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.77 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Sonia Saxena, Julie George, Julie Barber, Justine Fitzpatrick, and Azeem Majeed

Association of population and practice factors with potentially avoidable admission rates for chronic diseases in London: cross sectional analysis
J R Soc Med 99(2): 81-89; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.81 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand round

Laurie Montgomery Irvine

Ruptured ectopic pregnancy after a decline in chorionic gonadotropin
J R Soc Med 99(2): 90; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.90 [Full Text] [PDF]  

S Suman, S Meenakshisundaram, and P Woodhouse

Bilateral chronic subdural haematoma: a reversible cause of parkinsonism
J R Soc Med 99(2): 91-92; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.91 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

Kieran Walsh

Stroke Care—a Practical Manual
J R Soc Med 99(2): 93; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.93 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mike Aisbitt and John Bache

An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine: Guide for Practitioners in the Emergency Department
J R Soc Med 99(2): 93-94; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.93-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Hilda Bastian

Down and almost out in Scotland: George Orwell, tuberculosis and getting streptomycin in 1948
J R Soc Med 99(2): 95-98; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.95 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Podium

Anne Savage

Confidentiality versus public duty
J R Soc Med 99(2): 99-100; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.2.99 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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