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bmj.com Customised @lerts: Table of Contents for Saturday, 02 December 2000
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Editor's Choice
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Apocalypse soon: doctors needed
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/0

Editor's Choice [GP]
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Apocalypse soon: doctors needed
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/0/a

This Week in the BMJ
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New antipsychotics are not more effective than conventional drugs
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/0/b

Cancer patients and doctors might collude in false optimism
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/0/c

Ethnographic studies can help make sense of patients' and clinicians'
worlds
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/0/d

Rate of change in Barthel score can be used to predict survival in
terminally ill patients with cancer
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/0/e

Brief psychotherapy in general practice leads to speedier recovery for
depressed patients
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/0/f

Editorials
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Personal medical services: a barometer for the NHS?
     Jonathan Shapiro
     BMJ 2000;321 1359-1360
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1359

Atypical antipsychotics
     Shitij Kapur and Gary Remington
     BMJ 2000;321 1360-1361
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1360

The People's Health Assembly
     Zafrullah Chowdhury and Michael Rowson
     BMJ 2000;321 1361-1362
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1361

Economic evaluation and clinical trials: size matters
     Andrew Briggs
     BMJ 2000;321 1362-1363
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1362

The failings of NICE
     Richard Smith
     BMJ 2000;321 1363-1364
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1363

News
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Lords call for regulation of complementary medicine
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1365

MPs recommend tightening the law on female circumcision
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1365/a

In brief
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1366

English GP suspended for misleading drug companies
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1366/a

Doctors question new test for Down's syndrome
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1366/b

Talks on climate change collapse in acrimony
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1367

Reducing greenhouse gases will have good short term effect
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1367/a

US calls for research into research integrity
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1369/b

Data collection system needed for gun injuries
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1370

Hospital acquired infections kill 5000 patients a year in England
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1370/a

News roundup
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EU to test cattle aged over 30 months "at risk" of BSE
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1368

Drug resistant cholera in India attributed to antibiotic misuse
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1368/a

South Africa draws up new rules for foreign doctors
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1368/b

Irish committee backs genetically modified crops
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1368/c

US strengthens rights of insured patients
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1368/d

"Buffer zone" law for abortion clinics declared unconstitutional
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1368/e

US bill on pain relief bars doctor assisted suicide
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1369

Regulations not keeping up with developments in genetics, says poll
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1369/a

News Extra
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Hungarian GPs to be taught about depression
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1370/b

Papers
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Atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia: systematic
overview and meta-regression analysis
     John Geddes, Nick Freemantle, Paul Harrison, and Paul Bebbington
     BMJ 2000;321 1371-1376
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/321/7273/1371

Collusion in doctor-patient communication about imminent death: an
ethnographic study
     Anne-Mei The, Tony Hak, Gerard Koeter, and Gerrit van der Wal
     BMJ 2000;321 1376-1381
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/321/7273/1376

Using the modified Barthel index to estimate survival in cancer patients in
hospice: observational study
     Mike Bennett and Nicola Ryall
     BMJ 2000;321 1381-1382
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1381

Drug points: Apparent interaction between warfarin and levonorgestrel used
for emergency contraception
     J Ellison, A J Thomson, I A Greer, and I D Walker
     BMJ 2000;321 1382
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1382

General Practice
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Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-
behaviour therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with
depression. I: Clinical effectiveness
     Elaine Ward, Michael King, Margaret Lloyd, Peter Bower, Bonnie
     Sibbald, Sharon Farrelly, Mark Gabbay, Nicholas Tarrier, and Julia
     Addington-Hall
     BMJ 2000;321 1383-1388
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/321/7273/1383

Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-
behaviour therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with
depression. II: Cost effectiveness
     Peter Bower, Sarah Byford, Bonnie Sibbald, Elaine Ward, Michael King,
     Margaret Lloyd, and Mark Gabbay
     BMJ 2000;321 1389-1392
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/321/7273/1389


Clinical Review
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Recent advances: Urology
     Paul Abrams and Alan Wein
     BMJ 2000;321 1393-1396
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1393

ABC of colorectal cancer: Innovative treatment for colon cancer
     G A Chung-Faye and D J Kerr
     BMJ 2000;321 1397-1399
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1397

Education and Debate
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Ethnography and health care
     Jan Savage
     BMJ 2000;321 1400-1402
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1400

Ethical debate: Doctoring malaria, badly: the global campaign to ban DDT
DDT for malaria control should not be banned  Commentary: Reduction and
elimination of DDT should proceed slowly
     Amir Attaran, Rajendra Maharaj, and Richard Liroff
     BMJ 2000;321 1403-1405
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1403

Letters
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A practice that changed my patience
     Ian G Jefferson
     BMJ 2000;321 1406
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1406

Health effects of prisons
     Bobby P Smyth, Herbert Langkamp, Matthias L Schmid, Stephen T Green,
     Michael W McKendrick, and Noel McCarthy
     BMJ 2000;321 1406
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1406/a

Studies in meta-analysis of treatment of stable angina had methodological
flaws
     S C Eccleshall, G J Laarman, and J Nolan
     BMJ 2000;321 1408
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1408

Management of women with early breast cancer
     Janine Bell, David Robinson, Henrik Moller, Roy Williams, Hilary
     Fielder, R T D Oliver, Una M Macleod, Sue Ross, Graham C M Watt, Chris
     Twelves, W D George, and Charles Gillis
     BMJ 2000;321 1408
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1408/a

Women's attitudes to false positive mammography results
     Carol Jean Godby, Anne Peticolas, Joyce M Carter, Samuel Ghebrehewet,
     Steven Woloshin, Lisa Schwartz, H Gilbert Welch, and Harold C Sox
     BMJ 2000;321 1409
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1409

Baby food industry lobbies WHO
     Nancy-Jo Peck, Patti Rundall, Elisabeth Sterken, and Andree Bronner
     BMJ 2000;321 1411
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1411

Distinguishing mental illness in primary care
     David Goldberg, Geoff Earnshaw, Mark Winston, G H Hall, Hugh C
     Middleton, and Ian Shaw
     BMJ 2000;321 1412
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1412

US has placed tobacco imports to China high on priority list for
liberalisation
     James A Dickinson
     BMJ 2000;321 1413
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1413

GPs should take hold of mental health agenda
     Jace Clarke, Mike Giles, and Edward Peck
     BMJ 2000;321 1414
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1414

Hospital ethics committees may discourage staff from making own decisions
     Frank Leavitt
     BMJ 2000;321 1414
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1414/a

Can heart failure be diagnosed in primary care?
     Chris Davidson and Richard Hobbs
     BMJ 2000;321 1414
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1414/b

Shouldn't people be responsible for their own actions?
     John I Levitt
     BMJ 2000;321 1415
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1415

Obituaries
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Frank Basil Grossmark  Ambrose John King  Ivan MacIntyre  James Kevin
Sarsfield  Douglas LangtonWoolf
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1416


Reviews
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Book: 24-Hour Primary Care
     Morten Bondo Christensen and Frede Olesen
     BMJ 2000;321 1417
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1417

Book: The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Millennium
     David Brewster
     BMJ 2000;321 1417
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1417/a

Book: `Race' and Childbirth
     Kathryn Ehrich
     BMJ 2000;321 1418
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1418




A book that changed me: The Discovery of Insulin
     Robert Matz
     BMJ 2000;321 1418
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1418/a









NETLINES
     Harry Brown
     BMJ 2000;321 1420
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1420/a








TV: No news is bad news
     Trevor Jackson
     BMJ 2000;321 1419
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1419




Website of the week: Dealing with depression
     Jason O'Neale Roach
     BMJ 2000;321 1419
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1419/a



Personal Views:

A grief deferred
       Anonymous
     BMJ 2000;321 1420
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1420

Is general practice losing its way?
     Oliver Samuel
     BMJ 2000;321 1421
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1421

Soundings:

Behind every great woman
     Trisha Greenhalgh
     BMJ 2000;321 1421
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1421/a




Bestsellers     BMJ 2000;321 1418
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1418/b


Minerva:
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1422
Fillers
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One hundred years ago: Medical Interests in the General Election
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1393/a

Endpiece: From the auditor
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1403/a

Corrections
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ABC of breast diseases: Breast cancer
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1388

Letters
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1388/a

Drug use has declined among teenagers in United Kingdom
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1413/a

Lung cancer and passive smoking
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1415/a

Sentinel node biopsy for malignant melanoma
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/1415/b

Career focus
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Specialising in treatment for addictions
     Tom Carnwath, Ilana Crome, Claire Gerada, and Daphne Rumball
     BMJ 2000;321 2
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/S2-7273

Briefing: Mark Wilson's The Medics Guide to Work and...     BMJ 2000;321 3
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/S3-7273

Briefing: The West Midlands postgraduate deanery's careers information
pack...     BMJ 2000;321 3
     http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7273/S3a-7273






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