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Contents: June 2000

Editorials

Doctors and nurses: doing it differently

How to improve communication between doctors and patients

Recruiting the wrong students


News

Website still growing

Suicide report attacks men's magazines

Wine losing credibility

Doctors accused of "institutional racism"

Gene therapy saves immune deficient babies in France

US plans drugs stockpile to counter bioterrorism threat

Ireland's junior doctors to strike

Research does not reflect global disease burden

African heads of state promise action against malaria

First results of vCJD survey show no signs of prion

Doctor puts herring on prescription

Britain's first "virtual hospital" gets go ahead

Guru promotes global health

Education

Surgical emergencies: multiply injured patients

Eating disorders: essential information

ABC of heart failure: Management: diuretics, ACE inhibitors, and nitrates

Career focus: Surviving (and even enjoying) medicine


Papers

Review: Evidence of greater medical knowledge was associated with increased malpractice claims

Review: Long term use of ß blockers reduces mortality after myocardial infarction

Review: Low dose thiazides are the most effective first line drugs for hypertension


Life

Planning your elective - Calcutta

Health promotion with a non-governmental organisation in Calcutta

Student soapbox: descent into cynicism

A scary start to a holiday

Why I left medicine

Lecture theatre etiquette

Medical student madness

A body to die for


Letters

Doctors need to understand patients feelings

Seperating medicine from the rest of your life

Medics should not be narrow minded

Debt in developing countries should not be turned into emotive issue

Is infestation with the common bedbug increasiing?

Worrying advice to medical students

Author's reply

Reviews

www.medicine.com

Raft of ideas

Abdominal x rays made easy

Radiology made easy

Study skills and tomorrows doctors

Internal medicine - The Essential Facts

Blood - An Epic History of Medicine and Commerrce

Video review: Eyes Wide Shut

Jumping through hoops

The psychokiller strikes again

Minerva: June 2000