Editorials
266 Free education - rest in peace
267 Career guidance for doctors
268 "None-lethal" weapons: precipitating a new arms race
269 Hong Kong doctors: threats and opportunities

News
270 Biggest shake up in education for 35 years Grants are being awarded to students with tuberculosis Deaths of young infants may be avoided BMA calls for withdrawal of GMC's guidelines Two doctors confess to helping patients to die First Bedouin woman to study medicine in Israel

Education
273 Treating migraine with complementary medicine
275 Informed consent and shared decision making
277 Question of consent
279 Health in China: Traditional Chinese medicine: one country, two systems
282 ABC of mental health: Mental health emergencies
285 Abnormal bleeding in women on hormone replacement therapy
290 Net.Philes

Papers
291 Incidence and outcome e of bleeding before the 20th week of pregnancy: prospective study from general practice
294 Unsupervised surgical training: questionnaire study
295 Prevalence of HIV and injecting drug use in men entering Liverpool prison

Life
297 Neurosurgery
298 Student assistanships and locums
300 Hard work and handovers: student paediatrics in Hong Kong
301 Traditional Chinese medicine
301 The-not-so-secret diary of a medical student
302 Out there

Letters
303 Healthcare professionals switching to medicine Compassionate skills Not enough home students Doctors and dentists charging for the pill Video on death certification TB treatment

Soundings
305 Surgeons, curling tongs, and an anal fistula
305 Railways stations and small plasters

Personal view
306 That little baby
306 A very special day

Art & Reviews
307 The Island of the Colour Blind
307 The Dukes' nose

308 Minerva