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December 2007

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Editor's choice

Looking forward, looking back

News

Newsbites
Abortion in Great Britain and doctors' strike in Gaza strip

Attending medical school in virtual reality
Go take an online module

Editorials

Now is the time for ehealth
IT in healthcare

Charging vulnerable migrants for health care
The doctors's role?

Life

Head to head
Should all medical students be graduates first?

Technology and health care in the developing world
Using mobile phones, PDAs and the internet

Industry funded patient information
The slippery slope to New Zealand

After the tsunami
Visiting an Indian village

Cutting class
Medical education is evolving

When my patient died
Learning to cope

People

Clinical research on Mount Everest
Meet Monty Mython

Careers

Shadowing the junior doctor
Use the time well

Is the history of medicine worth your while?
Doing an intercalated degree

Brainwave to brilliant innovation
Doctors becoming inventors

Education

Prescribing in pregnancy
The last in our prescribing series

Reducing perioperative blood use
Answering why and how

Distinctive skin signs
Take the picture quiz

Holistic HIV care with HAART
Doctors have new responsibilities

Muscle weakness and wasting
Take the picture quiz

Cardiac patient simulators
Improving clinical examinations skills?

A brief history of plastic surgery
From ancient Egypt to World War 2, and beyond

Paper+

Counting CD4 cells cheaply
What can we learn from this diagnostic accuracy study?

Frontiers

The month in research
Hysterectomy and incontinence, treating heart attacks, and nitric oxide

Reviews

An ethicist on the ward round
Good doctors teach us about life
Convention or convenience?
Not another culinary metaphor?
How to read electrocardiograms

Eyespy

City living, broccoli juice, human optimism, and more