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22 March 2003 (Vol 326, No 7390)
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Doctors and managers: a problem without a solution?
Nigel Edwards, Martin Marshall, Alastair McLellan, Kamran Abbasi
BMJ  2003;326:609-610, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.609
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What doctors and managers can learn from each other
Richard Smith
BMJ  2003;326:610-611, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.610
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Doctors in chambers
Pam Garside, Andy Black
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Useful information about rare inherited disorders
Michael A Patton
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Not so benign intracranial hypertension
Kathleen B Digre
BMJ  2003;326:613-614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.613
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Doctors and managers
Hugo Mascie-Taylor, Tim Wilson, Kieran Sweeney, Mayur Lakhani, Thomas Plochg, Kiki Lombarts, Yolande Witman, Niek Klazinga, Karen Kruijthof
BMJ  2003;326:656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.656
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Values and leadership
Pramod P Bapat, Miles D A Protter, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
BMJ  2003;326:657, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.657
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The making of a disease: female sexual dysfunction
Rosemary Basson, Sandra Leiblum, Annie Potts, Pauline Lewis, Declan P Doogan, Alison Tonks, Ray Moynihan
BMJ  2003;326:658, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.658
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Company defends "campaign to `counter' BMJ claims"
Richard J Cripps
BMJ  2003;326:660, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.660
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Spending (slightly) less on health and more on the arts
Christine M Hamilton, Mark Petticrew, Philip V Kaye, Kerry S Kidd
BMJ  2003;326:660, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.660/a
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Sensory stimulation in dementia
Esme Moniz-Cook, Michael Bird, Jed Rowe
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WHO issues global alert on respiratory syndrome
Jane Parry
BMJ  2003;326:615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.615
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UK travellers warned after first suspected case of new syndrome
Anna Ellis
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In brief
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Brain haemorrhage in babies may not indicate violent abuse
Owen Dyer
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GMC accuses doctor of research fraud
Owen Dyer
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Privatisation of water is high on Kyoto summit agenda
Phyllida Brown
BMJ  2003;326:617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.617
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Ballot on GP contract postponed
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2003;326:617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.617/a
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UK nuclear medicine is close to collapse, experts warn
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2003;326:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.619/c
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Whistleblower charges drug company with deceptive practices
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2003;326:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.620
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US body reviews errors in emergency departments
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2003;326:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.620/a
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Lawyers may seek judicial review of panel reviewing paroxetine
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2003;326:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.618
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US buyers of drugs from Canadian pharmacies face prosecution
David Spurgeon
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Charity to promote links between creativity and serious illness
Sarah Macdonald
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NHS should be less paternalistic, conference is urged
Sarah Macdonald
BMJ  2003;326:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.618/c
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Interviews with patients better than surveys for generating change
Chris Mahoney
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Transparency is key to rationing debate, delegates told
Sally Hargreaves
BMJ  2003;326:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.619
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US Senate outlaws "partial birth abortion"
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2003;326:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.619/a
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Ambulance services to have access to telephone and email records
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2003;326:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.619/b
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Possible link between flu jab and Guillain-Barre syndrome under investigation
Charles Marwick
BMJ  2003;326:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.620/b
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Inhaled glucocorticoids versus leukotriene receptor antagonists as single agent asthma treatment: systematic review of current evidence
Francine M Ducharme
BMJ  2003;326:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.621
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Central overweight and obesity in British youth aged 11-16 years: cross sectional surveys of waist circumference
H David McCarthy, Sandra M Ellis, Tim J Cole
BMJ  2003;326:624, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.624
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Views of doctors and managers on the doctor-manager relationship in the NHS
Huw T O Davies, Claire-Louise Hodges, Thomas G Rundall
BMJ  2003;326:626-628, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.626
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Evidence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria resistant to atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride: case reports
Anna Färnert, Johan Lindberg, Pedro Gil, Göte Swedberg, Yngve Berqvist, Mita M Thapar, Niklas Lindegårdh, Sándor Berezcky, A Björkman
BMJ  2003;326:628-629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.628
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Media criticism of doctors: review of UK junior doctors' concerns raised in surveys
Michael J Goldacre, Julie Evans, Trevor W Lambert
BMJ  2003;326:629-630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.629
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Primary care in the United States: Organisation of primary care in the United States
Andrew B Bindman, Azeem Majeed
BMJ  2003;326:631-634, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.631
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Recent developments: Management of pain
Anita Holdcroft, Ian Power
BMJ  2003;326:635-639, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.635
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Interactive case report: A 66 year old woman with a rash: case progression
J Bligh, R Farrow
BMJ  2003;326:640, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.640
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Lesson of the week: Doxycycline induced intracranial hypertension
J Lochhead, J S Elston
BMJ  2003;326:641-642, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.641
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ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Written assessment
Lambert W T Schuwirth, Cees P M van der Vleuten
BMJ  2003;326:643-645, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.643
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War and causality
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2003;326:667, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.667/a
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This week's Personal views

The body tells a story
Paquita de Zulueta
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Don't drink the water . . .
Andrew S Furber
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Trends in doctor-manager relationships
Huw T O Davies, Stephen Harrison
BMJ  2003;326:646-649, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.646
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Medicine, management, and modernisation: a "danse macabre"?
Pieter Degeling, Sharyn Maxwell, John Kennedy, Barbara Coyle
BMJ  2003;326:649-652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.649
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Improving the doctor-manager relationship
BMJ  2003;326:652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.652
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Doctors and managers: mind the gap
David B Nash
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Building a successful partnership between management and clinical leadership: experience from New Zealand
Laurence Malcolm, Lyn Wright, Pauline Barnett, Chris Hendry
BMJ  2003;326:653-654, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.653
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Kaiser Permanente: a propensity for partnership
Francis J Crosson
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Doctors and managers need to speak a common language
Rifat A Atun
BMJ  2003;326:655, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.655
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Clinical networks for doctors and managers
Hilary Thomas
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John Fryer
Jeanne Lenzer
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Timothy Greville Ashworth
Tapas Guha
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Lewis Gillanders
Ian Gillanders
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Abdul Latif
Nahid Latif
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Viner Nicholl Leyshon
Stephen Wilmot
BMJ  2003;326:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.662/d
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Henry Ronald Playfair
James Playfair
BMJ  2003;326:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.662/e
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Ramasamy Selvam
Biji T Kurien
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Ivor Sevitt
Martin Hyatt
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Marjorie Paula Thomas
Chris Thomas
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Minerva
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This week's Fillers

POEM: Prophylactic zanamivir is effective for flu
BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.0/f
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One hundred years ago: The German Emperor and the medical profession
BMJ  2003;326:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.621/a
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Submitting articles to the BMJ
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A patient who made me think: We should not play God
Peter A Andrews
BMJ  2003;326:634, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.634
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When I use a word: The eyes have it
Jeff Aronson
BMJ  2003;326:639, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.639
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Endpiece: A choice
BMJ  2003;326:640, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.640/a
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Endpiece: Success
BMJ  2003;326:641, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.641/a
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This week's Corrections

Tobacco, coffee, and Parkinson's disease
BMJ  2003;326:614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.614
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TV: This Little Life
Malcolm Chiswick
BMJ  2003;326:665, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.665/a
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This week's BOOK

Book: Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice
Jocalyn Clark
BMJ  2003;326:664, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.664
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Book: Appraisal for the Apprehensive: A Guide for Doctors
Ignasi Agell
BMJ  2003;326:664, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.664/a
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Book: Bioterrorism: Guidelines for Medical and Public Health Management
Mark Reacher
BMJ  2003;326:665, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.665
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This week's CHOICE

Vive la différence?
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This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Website of the week: Doctors and managers
Marcus Müllner
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