Editorials
134 Should we screen for prostrate cancer?
135 Facial disfigurement
136 All Doctors are problem doctors

News
138 Patent on umbilical blood NHS cuts affect students' education Australian euthanasia law On call rotas Wine and dementia BMA division appoints student Chain reaction

Education
141 Assessment of dyspoeic patients: primary survey
143 Understanding fluid balance: 2. Enteral and parenteral nutrition 146 Alternative ethics: challenge of complementary medicine
149 Picture Quiz
150 Net.Philes
151 ABC of clinical haematology: Bleeding disorders, thrombosis, and anticoagulation
155 Science, medicine, and the future: Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus: the gathering storm

Papers
160 A controlled study of fluoxetine and cognitive-behavioural counselling in the treatment of postnatal depression
165 Timing of paediatric deaths after trauma

Life
166 Tim Willox: a writer who happens to be a doctor?
167 Paediatric doctor
169 Elective report: From Cookhouse to Constantia
169 The not-so-secret diary of a medical student
170 Out There

Letters
171 Teaching on medical ethics Meaning of life Doctors misunderstand patients Rights of unborn child Medicine as a second career Prognosis for preterm babies Arabs and anaesthesia

Soundings
173 To be, or not to be
173 Lists

Personal view
174 Running the New York marathon with diabetes

Reviews
174 Pain, pus, and blood
175 Drinking - a Love Story

176 Minerva