November 1996 Vol 4


Editorials

  • 396 Talking to patients about cancer

  • 397 Hepatitis B and admission to medical school

  • 398 Enjoy your fruits and vegetables

  • 399 New and not so new vaccines

  • News and Student Politics

  • 400 Doctors and gun licenses * Smoke ages your eyes * Sick doctors * Relatives watching resuscitation * Indian epidemic * chronic fatigue syndrome * Taliban affect health

  • Education

  • 403 Essentials of psychiatry 2

  • 404 How to write good accident and emergency notes

  • 407 Advanced trauma life support

  • 410 ABC of Work Related Disorders: Occupational cancers

  • 415 Guns don't die. People do

  • 416 Do fetuses feel pain?

  • Papers

  • 420 Effectiveness of BBC's 999 training roadshows on cardiopulmonary resuscitation: video performance of cohort of unforewarned participants at home six months afterwards

  • 424 Relation between general practitioners' prescribing of antibacterial drugs and their use of laboratory tests

  • 425 Hepatitis B and admission to medical school: an audit of British medical school policy

  • Student Life

  • 426 Ged Mercurio: the most cynical doctor in Britain?

  • 428 Land of the morning calm

  • 429 Learning to sign

  • 429 Out There

  • 430 Career focus: Pharmaceutical medicine

  • Letters

  • 432 Complementary medicine * Medical dramas * Medical background * Students who smoke * Anabolic steroids * Chronic fatigue syndrome * Graduate recruitment * Drug donations

  • Soundings

  • 434 Bleep, bleep, bleep....

  • 434 Are you sick?

  • Personal View

  • 435 Dear Doctor

  • 435 The great hijack

  • Medicine and the Media

  • 436 Transatlantic storm in a teacup

  • Books

  • 437 Medical Blunders. Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad and Dangerous Doctors

  • 437 Wrongful Death: A medical tragedy

  • Minerva

  • 438