Editorials
222 Why does acute back pain become chronic
223 Requesting necropsies
224 British doctors are not disappearing
225 Why health care systems need medical managers

News
226 Poverty gets NHS priority Junior doctors' dissatification UK to review surrogacy Eliminating trachoma among Maasai Orphans used as guinea pigs Hurdles for refugee doctors GPs lack time to teach

Education
229 Management of suspected sexual assault
231 What if I kill someone?
235 You should know, you're a medic: Oxygen treatment for patients with chronic obstructive airways disease
235 Net.Philes
236 ABC of mental health: Mental health assessment
240 Recent advances: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
244 Clinical lesson: Persistent itching due to etherified starch plasma expander

Papers
246 Risk of testicular cancer in cohort boys with cryptorchidism
251 Eye disease associated with handling pet tarantulas

Life
252 BMA/STA Travel competition: World survival
254 When working doesn't mean studying
256 Career in forensic psychiatry
257 How epilepsy changes my life
257 The not-so-secret diary of a medical student
258 Out There

Letters
259 New teaching methods Beetroot stools History of medicine Dentists and doctors Complementary medicine Rites of fetus Ventilation problem New Hippocratic oath Serum albumin and nutrition Correction

Soundings
261 End of the beginning; Revision time

Medicine and the media
262 Soap tackles stigma of schizophrenia

Personal view
262 Stigma

Reviews
263 Medicine; Repossessing Ernestine

264 Minerva