Students and doctors from MedSIN(UK) and MEDACT protesting outside the G8 summit in Birmingham against continuing developing world debt (see p 182) Photo: Andrew Wiard		Student BMJ June 1998 volume 6 Editorials 178 Medicine is your education 179 Britain's new strategy for tackling drugs misuse 180 Cannabis as medicine: time for the phoenix to rise? 181 Breaking down language barriers News 182 Joining hands to break chains of debt Snoring linked to exam failure Screening babies for hip dislocation is not effective Clinical trials to begin on angiogenesis inhibitors Dopamine producing cells cloned to treat Parkinson's disease Britain launches new antidrugs strategy Study backs tamoxifen for young women Mattress link to cot death ruled out Education 186 The thinking person's guide to taking a medical history 187 The emotional potential of clerking 188 Providing information: when, how, and what to tell your patient 191 You should know, you're a medic: Why do people yawn? 192 Picture Quiz 192 Nightclubs? Who needs them? 193 Our ageing population 193 Net.Philes 194 How to read a paper: Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses) 198 Coping with loss: Bereavement in childhood 201 ABC of allergies: Good allergy practice Papers 204 Medical students' attitudes towards complementary medicine: systematic review 207 Transferring medical images on the world wide web for emergency clinical management: a case report Life 208 Managing to be a doctor 209 The not-so-secret diary of a medical student 210 Planning your elective - India 211 The Lifeline Express to India 212 Out There Letters 213 Exploitative doctors Newcastle and Leicester compared Wanted: career advice Horses for courses Doctors should not tell their patients how to behave Good humoured spirit Soundings 215 Exams, vivas, and talk shows 215 Ears of experience Reviews 216 The Miracle Strain 216 A Medical Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain 217 Essential books The Bell Jar 217 Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Personal view 218 Last on the list Medicine and the media 219 Trust me, I'm a wreck 219 The Human Body Minerva 132 Editor's choice A new edition, a new student editor. Sitting in the office on a Friday night I'm already beginning to forget what it's like to clerk a patient. It's lucky then that we have Anita Goraya, Martin Gaba, and Anthony Papagiannis explaining how to go about it on p 186-90. If you think you know all there is to know about clerking, think again. Those of you still yawning your way through lectures may like to know why you yawn, apart from the obvious - Anita Simonds helps you out on p 191. Séamus Phillips has plenty to say about hospital managers on p 208. He was one of them. But the art of medicine pulled him away. He encourages us to get involved with the more political aspects of the NHS. (Look out for our special NHS anniversary edition next month.) Find out why you shouldn't drink tea on a carpet, with Jessica Westall on p 210, as she goes with the flow in India, and read about William Norman's fascinating elective on the Lifeline Express on p 211. Our only paper this month is Edzard Ernst's review of medical students' attitudes to complementary medicine, on p 204, and he suggests reasons why these attitudes are not reflected in the medical school curriculum. Ruairidh Milne has written an entertaining critical appraisal of this paper on p 206. If you've finished exams - hope they went well, and welcome back to all those arriving home from elective. Happy reading!