CONTENTS

BMJ on the internetMy career:psychosexual
medicine
   
An ethical debateHow to use an otoscope
 
  • The rights of patients in research
  • BMJ on the internet
  • Spinal cord injuries in rugby union players
  • Management of first trimester spontaneous abortions
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    News and Student Politics

    Students retake finals * Australia's preventable deaths * Foreign holiday risks * Junior doctors' workload * Funding following students * Escape route for medical students

    Education

  • Essentials of oncology: radiotherapy
  • How to use an otoscope
  • Picture Quiz
  • ABC of Rheumatology: Rashes and vasculitis
  • Healthy eating: clarifying advice about fruit and vegetables
  • An Ethical Debate: Should older women be offered in vitro fertilisation?
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    Papers

  • Contribution of dihydrotestosterone to male sexual behaviour
  • The analgesic effect of sucrose in full term infants: a randomised controlled trial
  • Patients with major trauma who do not use emergency ambulances
  • Balti curries and iron

    • Student Life

  • My elective: Trauma at Cook County Hospital, Chicago
  • My career: psychosexual medicine
  • My favourite picture
  • Inconsistencies in our views of the fetus
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    Letters

    Medicine and wealth * Entry to medical school * Condom sense * Curriculum change * Failing Asian students * Electives * Needlestick injuries * Informing patients

    Soundings

  • Preparing for finals
  • Comparing notes
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    Personal View

  • The end of a story

    • Medicine and the Media

  • Conflict of interest in the Times

    • Minerva