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February 2008

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Editor's choice

The buck stops here?

News

Newsbites
Lecturers strike, smoking restriction, and junk food ads

Can we trust medical training?
Response to a BBC radio programme

Letters

Dying patients, ethics teaching, and postoperative oliguria

Editorials

Communicating risk to the public after radiological incidents
Learning from Litvinenko

Care bundles
Better than clinical guidlines?

Life

How far would you go?
Exaggerating on your job application

Head to head
Should drugs be decriminalised?

Neuroscience, ethics, and the law
My brain made me do it

Risky injections
Too many in Pakistan

Policing plagiarism
Nifty tools for detecting cheats

I'm a surgeon: respect me!
Changing the stereotype

Careers

Deciding when students are not fit to practise
How we're judged

Investigations you may face as a hospital doctor
Kept accountable

A juror's verdict
A consultant turns up for jury duty

People

A rugby club doctor
Working for the London Wasps

Engaging with society
A doctor and novelist studies law

Treating teenage cancer
A professor at Manchester University

Education

A painful and swollen wrist
Take the picture quiz

Menstrual migraine
Tackling an important condition

Acute abdomen in an infant
Take the picture quiz

Mitochondrial research
A role in clinical practice?

Acute limb ischaemia
Thinking beyond the six Ps

Paper+

Public information after polonium-210 poisoning
Learn from this qualitative study

Frontiers

This month in research
Allelic expression; adverse drug events; and dementia drugs

Reviews

How failure changed my life
Are patients or doctors responsible?
Surgical training needs an upgrade
Why bother with medical ethics?
Clinical examination videos
Lend your idle computer to research

Eyespy

Alcohol hand rubs; whistleblowing; materialistic kids; and more