19 December 1998(vol 317, issue 7174)

This Week In the BMJ

• Grandmothers prevent unnecessary hospital attendance

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• A Cinnamon Sedge is better than a Black Gnat

  BMJ 1998; 317 :c (Published 19 December 1998)

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• Superstition increases Japanese health costs

  BMJ 1998; 317 :d (Published 19 December 1998)

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• Socioeconomic status affects the health of pets

  BMJ 1998; 317 :g (Published 19 December 1998)

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• Sweets in moderation may be good for you

  BMJ 1998; 317 :e (Published 19 December 1998)

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• It's all right to get up late

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Editorials

• Can medicine prevent war?

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• Reinventing doctors

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• Socioeconomic differentials in the mortality of pets

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• Snapshots from the decade of the brain

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• “No longer Gage”: an iron bar through the head

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• BMJ bans anniversaries

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Clinical Reviews

• 1755 and all that: a historical primer of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

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• Brainy mind

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• The consciousness of sight

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• Brain drugs of the future

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• Differences in mental abilities

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• The brain, circadian rhythms, and clock genes

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• Neurogenetic determinism and the new euphenics

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Editor's Choice

• Prepare to be unsettled

  BMJ 1998; 317 :0 (Published 19 December 1998)

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Papers

• Larks and owls and health, wealth, and wisdom

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• Does the fly matter? The CRACKPOT study in evidence based trout fishing

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1678 (Published 19 December 1998)

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• Influence of superstition on the date of hospital discharge and medical cost in Japan: retrospective and descriptive study

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• Life is sweet: candy consumption and longevity

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• Grandmothers' role in preventing unnecessary accident and emergency attendances: cohort study

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• Xenotransmission of the socioeconomic gradient in health? A population based study

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• Chewing gum for extradural haemorrhage

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Filler

• Favourite prayers

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• Favourite prayers

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• Favourite prayers

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• The ship

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• What's in a name?

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1731 (Published 19 December 1998)

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• A Christmas carol

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Education and debate

• An international work exchange: better than a midlife crisis

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• Only if she has a fishing rod!

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• Apgar scores for dads

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• De futuro urbanorum

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• Alastair MacIntosh MacLachlainn (1892-1959): an unusual career

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1714 (Published 19 December 1998)

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• Get your book published

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• Lessons from Whitehall

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Sacred cows

• Sacred cows: to the abattoir!

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• Down with EBM!

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• The need for political correctness in scientific writing

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• Double bandaging of sprained ankles

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• A seamless service

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• The primacy of primary health care

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• Clinical governance

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• The promise of the neurosciences

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• Sacred cows: to the abattoir!

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• Sacred cows: to the abattoir!

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SACRED COWS

• The accelerating pace of change

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XMAS

• Shall I compare thee to a…Big game animal?Ship?World Cup football team?Navigator on a foggy night?Car?Spice?Breakfast cereal?

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• Nan West's murals in the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

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• Coming to terms with deathComing to terms with deathThe challengeThe visitPainMemoriesThe meeting

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Personal Views

• The new Victorians: community care in the 1990s

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1738 (Published 19 December 1998)

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• Will you present the prizes?

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• My cancer and the magic bullet

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• From the other side

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• Boom ditty boom ditty boom ditty boom (goodness gracious me)

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Career focus

• Establishing educational needs in a new organisation

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• The physician's prayer

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