16 June 2012(vol 344, issue 7861)

Editor's Choice

• Empathy or imperturbability?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4118 (Published 13 June 2012)

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News

• Intervention to prevent transmission of mitochondrial disorders should be allowed, subject to safeguards, report says

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4089 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• Public’s satisfaction with NHS fell by 12% in 2011

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• In brief

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• New scoring charts for GPs are too crude, say doctors’ leaders

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3988 (Published 07 June 2012)

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• A fifth of women with breast cancer have a recurrence, new UK figures show

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4085 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• GMC launches new tribunal service for UK doctors

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4060 (Published 11 June 2012)

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• Young Jehovah’s Witness who refused a blood transfusion is allowed to die

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4097 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• Trust seeks legal advice to stop private firms selling GP practices

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3993 (Published 08 June 2012)

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• Pressure on hospital beds in Scotland is affecting patient care, warns royal college

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4067 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• GP practice shed vulnerable elderly patients to save money, NHS probe finds

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3998 (Published 07 June 2012)

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• Funding agencies are standing in way of open access to research results, publishers say

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4062 (Published 11 June 2012)

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• Anticounterfeiting agreement will hinder trade in generic drugs, protesters say

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4073 (Published 11 June 2012)

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• Finland leads 31 European countries in tackling child injuries with Greece last

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4008 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• Anticoagulants cause the most serious adverse events, finds US analysis

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3989 (Published 07 June 2012)

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Editorials

• Pre-diabetes as a contributor to stroke

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3285 (Published 07 June 2012)

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• Severe sepsis in the UK and the case volume-outcome association

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3494 (Published 29 May 2012)

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• Keeping patients safe while avoiding bias in randomised trials

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3297 (Published 14 May 2012)

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• Assisted dying

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4075 (Published 13 June 2012)

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• The management of suspected encephalitis

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3489 (Published 06 June 2012)

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Research News

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4055 (Published 13 June 2012)

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Research

• Relation between volume and outcome for patients with severe sepsis in United Kingdom: retrospective cohort study

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3394 (Published 29 May 2012)

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• Hospital volume and patient outcomes after cholecystectomy in Scotland: retrospective, national population based study

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3330 (Published 23 May 2012)

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• Serum glucose levels for predicting death in patients admitted to hospital for community acquired pneumonia: prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3397 (Published 29 May 2012)

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  • Open Access
• Effect of pre-diabetes on future risk of stroke: meta-analysis

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3564 (Published 07 June 2012)

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• The scatter of research: cross sectional comparison of randomised trials and systematic reviews across specialties

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3223 (Published 17 May 2012)

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Feature

• Trials at the ready: preparing for the next pandemic

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2982 (Published 03 May 2012)

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• Can Twitter predict disease outbreaks?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2353 (Published 17 May 2012)

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Analysis

• Time to end the distinction between mental and neurological illnesses

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3454 (Published 24 May 2012)

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Letters

• Where’s the evidence for malign relatives, professionals, or carers?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4016 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• Malign individuals would probably be identified with legislation

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4018 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• Consider suffering associated with lack of control over dying

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4019 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• Legislation and debate are needed

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4020 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• Doctors need to perfect the art of allowing patients to die with dignity

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4021 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• UK quality assurance of blood cobalt and chromium after hip implants

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4017 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• Flaws in analysis lead to misleading conclusions about varenicline’s safety in smoking cessation

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3873 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• Authors’ reply to Singh and Loke

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4033 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• The authorities should be held to account for Southall’s wrecked career

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4024 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• PACA response to article on David Southall’s wrecked career

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4023 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• GMC was not “too lenient” with Southall

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4027 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• Consider risk of compromising the identity of vulnerable patients

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4031 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• No more arbitrary upper age limits for clinical research

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4040 (Published 12 June 2012)

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• How we risk getting it wrong in cognitive screening too

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4043 (Published 12 June 2012)

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Observations

• Our professional bodies should stop opposing assisted dying

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4115 (Published 13 June 2012)

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• How to be a cool headed clinician

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3980 (Published 08 June 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• My mum wanted assisted dying but we watched her die slowly and in pain

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4007 (Published 13 June 2012)

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• Accounts of Equatorial Africa

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3883 (Published 13 June 2012)

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• Raving and Melancholy Madness

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3881 (Published 01 June 2012)

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Obituaries

• Eric Brenman

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4012 (Published 13 June 2012)

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• Solomon Bender

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• David Anderson Black

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• Dion Christopher Burford

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• Kathleen Dalzell

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• Errol Mendus Edwards

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• Kenneth Newton Lloyd

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3683 (Published 13 June 2012)

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Clinical Review

• Diagnosis, treatment, and management of echinococcosis

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3866 (Published 11 June 2012)

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Practice

• Management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding: summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3412 (Published 13 June 2012)

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• Herpes simplex encephalitis

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3166 (Published 06 June 2012)

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• Herpes simplex virus encephalitis

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3630 (Published 13 June 2012)

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• Bridging the gap: an integrated paediatric to adult clinical service for young adults with kidney failure

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3718 (Published 01 June 2012)

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Endgames

• A farmer with fever and right upper quadrant pain

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3426 (Published 01 June 2012)

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• A persisting puzzling pneumonia in a young man

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2690 (Published 08 May 2012)

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• Meta-analyses: tests of heterogeneity

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3971 (Published 13 June 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Why doctors should support welfare reform

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4054 (Published 13 June 2012)

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• Having a whale of a time

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4044 (Published 13 June 2012)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3992 (Published 13 June 2012)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3991 (Published 13 June 2012)

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