April 2008
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Editor's choice
What drives you to learn?
News
Newsbites
Brain drain; Iraqi hospitals; and yellow fever in Paraguay
Making patients pay
Hidden hospital costs
Letters
Teaching medical students; clinical exam videos, and gap years
Editorials
Drug resistant tuberculosis
A third of world is infected by TB
Life
Antibiotics are not enough
Social stigma and tuberculosis
Change your mind
Pills to enhance your personality and boost your brain
Holistic medicine is human medicine
Beyond the biomedical model
UKCAT among the pigeons
The controversial medical school admissions test
Evolution and the curriculum
Does it deserve more teaching time?
"You just had seizure"
A medical student's experience
Diagnosis of epilepsy
A better doctor for it?
Careers
Dealing with complaints
Why do they happen? What can we do?
Reflective medics
Slow down and think; it's vital for your learning
People
An international health guru
Promoting whole person medicine
The essence of Ellis
A surgical superstar
Education
Severe chest pain radiating to the back
Take the picture quiz
A handlebar injury to abdomen
Take the picture quiz
Complementary medicine
Its use is widespread
Panic disorder
Treat a debilitating set of symptoms
Toxic epidermal necrolysis
A dermatological emergency
Paper+
Cannabinoid agonists for chronic neuropathic pain
Read about a randomised, crossover, double blind study
Frontiers
The month in research
Medical schools and industry; smoking in India; and treating diabetes
Reviews
Miracle drug cures everything
Get the most out of your PRN orders
Dans Le Noir?
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Eyespy
Fast food harms the liver, and a mouse that catches colds
