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Student BMJ April 1999 volume 7 Editorials 90 Something
borrowed from the blues?
News and student politics Education 98 A respiratory complication of a locked knee
99 Postoperative care of surgical
patients
102 Picture Quiz
103 Net.philes
104 ABC
of sexual health - taking a sexual history
107 Science,
medicine, and the future: Genetically modified foods
Papers 114 A
memorable patient - Unerring trust
Life 116 Doughnut rounds: teaching
with a hole in it 118 The doctor-patient relationship
- the other side of the fence 119 From the
other end of the stethoscope
120 Student soapbox: Dangerous
people or dangerous attitudes? 121 Student soapbox: On medicine,
managers, and the future of the NHS
Letters Soundings Reviews 125 Wrong Medicine 126 Minor Surgery & Skin
Lesions: Diagnosis and Management on CD Rom 126 Modernity, Medicine and
Health 127 Sherlock Holmes
Personal view 128 Trade secrets Medicine and the media
Minerva Also in the United Kingdom, the consequences of an inquiry
into the Metropolitan police's investigation of the murder
of a black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, defined a new term
- "institutionalised racism." In his editorial, Kwame
McKenzie (p 90) draws a parallel with racial discrimination
in the NHS and asks what should be done about it, whereas
Joe Collier (p 128)
describes how he was ostracised by challenging racism at work.
88 The
paradoxes of genetically modified foods
92 
Hungarian
university starts first migration medicine course
Hong Kong reports vancomycin
resistant staphylococcus
UK
medical schools should expand to meet staff shortages
Israel
restricts fertility treatment
Philippines
tackles air pollution
Scientists
discover a gene involved in diabetes and obesity
South
Korea cracks down on medical corruption
Link
between pollution and asthma uncovered
Tissue
damage main reason for suing surgeons
In brief
96 Emergency!
111 Analysis
of Chinese herbal creams prescribed for dermatological conditions
115 The trouble with medicine
122
Medical students' electives
Maybe selection criteria need to be refined
Evidence based practice must be applied to
student selection
British standards are not as hopeless as
often claimed
White paper on tobacco takes a laudable stance
Paying for nicotine replacement therapy is
cheaper than smoking 20 cigarettes and under a day
124 Medical box
125 Fatal Protein
128 Tackling institutional
racism
129 Hot potato
Editors choice
There's been a media frenzy in the United Kingdom
these past few weeks - the cause: genetically modified foods.
As Abi Berger explains
on p 129, one scientist's reported findings - that eating genetically
modified potatoes led to abnormalities - seem to have inflamed
the already sensitive media to this issue. The battle between
the campaigners against genetically modified foods (who are
very well connected - see Richard
Harling's article on p 129) and the biotechnology companies
has intensified.
What is it all about? - p 107
Many British supermarkets have either withdrawn
genetically modified foods completely from their shelves or
drastically reduced the amount of items containing genetically
modified foodstuffs. But what is the fuss about, and should
we be worried? When we qualify, will there be a new generation
of patients presenting with immune system changes and organ
damage caused by eating genetically modified foods? In his editorial,
Bernard
Dixon examines the contradictions around the debate (p 88),
while Leighton
Jones's thorough article on p 107 explains what genetic
modification is, how it is used, and why we should be concerned.
The young breathless patient - p
96
We receive lots of articles from medical students
describing what it is like to be a patient. Nicola
Goodchild has written a particularly reflective piece (p
118), and she hopes her experience will make her a better doctor.
Finally, how can medical students learn
all the facts they need to pass exams? Kim
Hutton, in her article on p 115, finds out how five medical
students in London master their memory, and Georgia
Ingram explains how (non-genetically modified) doughnut
rounds are all the rage in Oxford (p 116).
What's a doughnut round? - p 116