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Contents: August 2000

Editorials

Can patients teach students?

Bupropion: a new treatment for smokers

Isolated systolic hypertension: a radical rethink


News

Parts of brain responsible for love identified

Campaign to eliminate world debt

Computer based learning is more effective than lectures

U-turn on blood policy

UK to gain two new medical schools

Medical schools are failing to serve the community

New York votes to post doctors' details on net

UN says up to half the teenagers in Africa will die of AIDS

Patient has coronary artery bypass surgery while awake

Education

Acute urological emergencies

ABC of arterial and venous disease: Non-invasive methods of arterial and venous assessment

Towards better treatment of glaucoma

"Hugging trees": its role in medical education

You should know, you're a medic: Why does urine smell odd after eating asparagus?

Career focus: Expedition medicine

Picture Quiz


Papers

Review: Interactive, but not didactic, continuing medical education is effective in changing physician performance

Review: Glucocorticoids improve symptoms of croup within 6 hours


Life

Planning your elective - South Africa

Glimpses of life found in the midst of tragedy

The Beach doctor

STA Travel/BMA photographic competition

Medicine - a bitter pill

The case for student GMC registration

Funny folk

Student soapbox: Bad feeling about medical school mergers

A guide to medical etiquette: psychiatry

Will more advertising destroy the studentBMJ?


Letters

Entertaining television does not reflect reality

Other Medical schools are as good as Oxford

Excellent academic performance is not a guarentee of entry to medical school

Medical schools are not elitist, at least not in the way they are portrayed

Medical students with life experiance are what we need for improved doctor-patient relationships

Employers should show courtesy to unsuccessful candidates

Seeking help for an eating disorder

Use of irony undermines discussion of a serious topic

Debt crisis in developing world is emotive issue

Reviews

Book review: Man and Boy

Book review: Learning Medicine

Film review: 28 Days

Art review: The history of breast cancer as seen through the eyes of the artist

Film review: On earth as it is in hell

The Press: The uninvited

Personal View: Communication is the key to quality care

Soundings: Chart of darkness

Minerva: August 2000