11 October 2008(vol 337, issue 7674)

Editor's Choice

• A difficult balance

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Editorials

• Medically certified sickness absence

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• Diagnosing child abuse

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• Smoking cessation services for young people

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• Automated external defibrillators in the workplace

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• Recognising excellence, innovation, and integrity

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Letters

• Multimorbidity may be stumbling block

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• One clear remedy for nurses’ ambitions

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• Skills are very different

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• Data on births by ethnic group now available for England and Wales

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• At least recommend hypnotherapy

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• Modern models are already being applied

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• An old story

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News

• Contract for GPs in England “failed to live up to expectations,” say MPs

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• Three Europeans win Nobel medicine prize for discovering HIV and HPV

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• Taranissi dismissed symptoms as anxiety day before patient was admitted to intensive care

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• Cricket legend Tendulkar tells Indian children to wash their hands

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• Only 3% of NHS trusts failed to balance their books in 2007-8

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• A new use for doctors’ ties

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• Consensus statement on ovarian cancer aims to settle dispute over symptoms

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• Primary care trusts must “challenge the fiction of the wonder drug”

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• US tells African governments to stop supplying international family planning group

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• New Portuguese code no longer defines abortion as ethical misconduct

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• Letting art do the healing

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• Medical isotopes supply is likely to return to 80% by end of October

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• Unicef aims to eliminate tetanus in mothers and babies by 2012

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• In brief

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• Crackly crisps taste better, costly placebos work better, and fleas jump higher on dogs than cats

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• Angry relatives attack doctors and hospitals in Nepal

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• Campaigners demand equal treatment for all thalidomide victims

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• How patients rate doctors

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Observations

• The harms of medicoplasty

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Analysis

• Early detection of chronic kidney disease

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Research

• Improving generalist end of life care: national consultation with practitioners, commissioners, academics, and service user groups

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• Effects of improved home heating on asthma in community dwelling children: randomised controlled trial

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• Diagnosis-specific sickness absence as a predictor of mortality: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study

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• Patterns of skeletal fractures in child abuse: systematic review

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Clinical Review

• Management of travellers’ diarrhoea

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Practice

• Investigating painless haematuria

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• Slow ventricular tachycardia

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• Raised blood glucose concentration

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Obituaries

• Timothy Gordon Cooke

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• Matthew Kenyon Alexander

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• David Christopher Bruce Bissett

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• David Christison

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• James Hamilton Fairley

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• Patrick Adrian Hopkins

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• Hugh Owen Hughes

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• David Staig

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Views & Reviews

• The kindness of strangers

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• Bombs in the sexual health war

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• A knot in the ribbon

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• The fatal sleep

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• The Conquest of Happiness

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• Out of the shadows

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Endgames

• A pain in the bottom

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• Distributions

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• Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infection in children

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• Anaemia in a 17 year old student

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• TinyURL

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• A memorable consultation

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• A shocking tale

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