From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Good and bad lessons from the United States
J R Soc Med 99(9): 429; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.429 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Donald Irvine

Good doctors: safer patients—the Chief Medical Officer's prescription for regulating doctors
J R Soc Med 99(9): 430-432; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.430 [Full Text] [PDF]  

C A Bruce, I A Bruce, and L Williams

The impact of surgical care practitioners on surgical training
J R Soc Med 99(9): 432-433; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.432 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Gio Batta Gori

Trends in obesity
J R Soc Med 99(9): 434; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.434 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Majid Ezzati and Christopher J L Murray

Trends in obesity: Authors' reply
J R Soc Med 99(9): 434-435; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.434-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ronald L Krall and Frank Rockhold

Reasons for optimism not disillusionment
J R Soc Med 99(9): 435; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.435 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stevan Harnad

Open access: the evidence and the verdict
J R Soc Med 99(9): 435-436; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.435-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sarah J Farrow

International medical graduates
J R Soc Med 99(9): 436; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.436 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sepehr Hafizi

Depression: epidemic or pseudo-epidemic?
J R Soc Med 99(9): 436; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.436-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tarek A-Z K Gaber and Ashraf Azer

Controversies in thromboprophylaxis for immobile patients secondary to neurological impairment
J R Soc Med 99(9): 436-437; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.436-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

S E Tchamouroff

Al-Razi and Islamic medicine in the 9th century
J R Soc Med 99(9): 437; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.437 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essays

Mark Walport and Robert Kiley

Open access, UK PubMed Central and the Wellcome Trust
J R Soc Med 99(9): 438-439; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.438 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simon Wessely

The life and death of Private Harry Farr
J R Soc Med 99(9): 440-443; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.440 [Full Text] [PDF]  

H Connor

The use of anaesthesia to diagnose malingering in the 19th century
J R Soc Med 99(9): 444-447; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.444 [Full Text] [PDF]  

E H Jellinek

The Valsalva manoeuvre and Antonio Valsalva (1666-1723)
J R Soc Med 99(9): 448-451; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.448 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Series

Richard Smith

The highly profitable but unethical business of publishing medical research
J R Soc Med 99(9): 452-456; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.452 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review

Nigel Unwin

The metabolic syndrome
J R Soc Med 99(9): 457-462; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.457 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Arch G Mainous, III, Vanessa A Diaz, Sonia Saxena, Richard Baker, Charles J Everett, Richelle J Koopman, and Azeem Majeed

Diabetes management in the USA and England: comparative analysis of national surveys
J R Soc Med 99(9): 463-469; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.463 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Sukhmeet Singh Panesar, Ricky Thakrar, Thanos Athanasiou, and Aziz Sheikh

Comparison of reports of randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews in surgical journals: literature review
J R Soc Med 99(9): 470-472; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.470 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grand round

Callisto Madavo and Hisham Hurriez

Schistosomiasis of the appendix
J R Soc Med 99(9): 473-474; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.473 [Full Text] [PDF]  

M Absoud, F Hikmet, P Dey, M Joffe, and E Thambapillai

Bilateral cavernous sinus thrombosis complicating sinusitis
J R Soc Med 99(9): 474-476; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.474 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

David Tovey

Doctor: what's wrong
J R Soc Med 99(9): 477; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.477 [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Mike Clarke

The 1944 patulin trial of the British Medical Research Council
J R Soc Med 99(9): 478-480; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.478 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

J W Rainsbury and S M McDonnell

Podcasts: an educational revolution in the making?
J R Soc Med 99(9): 481-482; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.9.481 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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