From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Too little quality; too many doctors
J R Soc Med 99(6): 271; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.271 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Arun Natarajan and Balasubramanian Ravikumar

Requiem for international medical graduates
J R Soc Med 99(6): 272-273; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.272 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul Dieppe

Complicity theory: an explanation for the `coxib problem'?
J R Soc Med 99(6): 273-274; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.273 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark Weatherall, Sarah Aldington, Brent Caldwell, and Richard Beasley

Inconsistencies in cardiovascular data from COX-2 inhibitor trials—is it a class effect?
J R Soc Med 99(6): 275-276; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.275 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Alan Breen, Steven Vogel, Tamar Pincus, Nadine Foster, Martin Underwood The Musculoskeletal Process of Care Collaboration

Systematic review of spinal manipulation: A balanced review of evidence?
J R Soc Med 99(6): 277; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.277 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Byfield and Peter McCarthy

Systematic review of spinal manipulation: Flaws in the review
J R Soc Med 99(6): 277-278; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.277-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

B J Lewis and G Carruthers

Systematic review of spinal manipulation: A biased report
J R Soc Med 99(6): 278; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.278 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ann Moore The members of the National Council for Osteopathic Research

Systematic review of spinal manipulation: Including different techniques
J R Soc Med 99(6): 278-279; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.278-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

E Ernst and P Canter

Systematic review of spinal manipulation: Authors' reply
J R Soc Med 99(6): 279-280; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.279 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kieran Walsh

Modernizing medical careers
J R Soc Med 99(6): 280; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.280 [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRECTION
J R Soc Med 99(6): 280; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.280-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essays

Karen Bloor, Vivien Hendry, and Alan Maynard

Do we need more doctors?
J R Soc Med 99(6): 281-287; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.281 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

John Jenkins

Mozart—portrait and myth
J R Soc Med 99(6): 288-291; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.288 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Series

Richard Smith

Conflicts of interest: how money clouds objectivity
J R Soc Med 99(6): 292-297; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.292 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review

Raja A S Mukherjee, Sheila Hollins, and J Turk

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: an overview
J R Soc Med 99(6): 298-302; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.298 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research

John Wright, Bob Dugdale, Ian Hammond, Brian Jarman, Maria Neary, Duncan Newton, Chris Patterson, Lynne Russon, Philip Stanley, Rose Stephens, and Erica Warren

Learning from death: a hospital mortality reduction programme
J R Soc Med 99(6): 303-308; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.303 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R E Ferner and Sarah E McDowell

Doctors charged with manslaughter in the course of medical practice, 1795-2005: a literature review
J R Soc Med 99(6): 309-314; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.309 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand round

Aditi Mohla, Olugbemisola Oworu, and Colin Hutchinson

Aplastic anaemia presenting with features of raised intracranial pressure
J R Soc Med 99(6): 315-316; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.315 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Sagar Saha and Clare Dollery

Severe ischaemic cardiomyopathy associated with khat chewing
J R Soc Med 99(6): 316-318; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.316 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Abdul R Mohammed and Paul Sherwood

Oesophageal lichen planus: a missed diagnosis
J R Soc Med 99(6): 318-320; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.318 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

Manoj Ramachandran and Jeffrey K Aronson

The diagnosis of art: arthrogryposis and Ribera's The Clubfoot
J R Soc Med 99(6): 321-322; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.321 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

M D O'Brien

Nerve endings: the discovery of the synapse
J R Soc Med 99(6): 322; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.322 [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Jon Pollock

Two controlled trials of supplementary feeding of British school children in the 1920s
J R Soc Med 99(6): 323-327; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.323 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Rehan Ahmed Siddiquee

What the PLAB did not teach me
J R Soc Med 99(6): 328; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.6.328 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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