Editorial

Editorial: Time to refocus the NHS on quality and dignity of patient care: RCPE response to Mid Staffordshire
NG Dewhurst, MC Jones, JA Wilson

Editorial: Genetics and global healthcare
AH Bittles

Editorial: Diagnosing the dead: the retrospective analysis of
genetic diseases
AR Rushton

Clinical

• Randomised controlled trial of brief intervention with biofeedback and hypnotherapy in patients with refractory irritable bowel syndrome
  A Dobbin, J Dobbin, SC Ross, C Graham, MJ Ford
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Are newly qualified doctors prepared to provide supportive and end-of-life care? A survey of Foundation Year 1 doctors and consultants
J Bowden, K Dempsey, K Boyd, M Fallon, SA Murray


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A pilot study of the impact of an educational intervention aimed at improving medical
record documentation
M Farzandipour, Z Meidani, F Rangraz Jeddi, H Gilasi, L Shokrizadeh Arani, E Fakharian, B Saddik

Case of the quarter:
Panda sign due to severe coughing
JM Reid, D Williams

Clinical opinion:
The breast cancer genome and the complexity of different subgroups: what does it mean?
SR Johnston

Education

• RCPE UK Consensus Conference Statement:
  RCPE UK Consensus Conference Statement Management of acute kidney injury: the role of fluids, e-alerts and biomarkers
  Authors/members of Consensus Panel: Feehally J (Co-Chair); Gilmore I (Co-Chair); Barasi S; Bosomworth M; Christie B; Davies A; Dhesi J; Dowdle R; Gibbins C; Gonzalez I; Harding S; Lamont D; Murphy G; Ostermann M; Parr J; Stevens PE
  

  Current controversies:
  The banning of sportsmen and women who fail drug tests is unjustifiable
  S Shuster, JW Devine

• CME:
  Occupational lung disease
  PA Reid, PT Reid

• Neurology symposium review:
  Neurological diseases in pregnancy
  D Kevat, L Mackillop

  Neurology symposium report:
  Neurology Symposium
  P Foley

• The confused patient in the acute hospital symposium review:
  The confused patient in the acute hospital: legal and ethical challenges for clinicians in Scotland
  D Lyons

  The confused patient in the acute hospital symposium report:
  Symposium report
  F Doubal

History

• Drosophila melanogaster: a fly through its history and current use
  R Stephenson, NH Metcalfe

  Doctor Jean-Paul Marat (1743–93) and his time as a physician in Great Britain
  JR Silver, M-F Weiner

  Sir Harry C Sinderson Pasha (1891–1974): physician, medical educator and royal confidant
  AS Jawad

  Ex libris: A mid-seventeeth century defence of Galenism
  IML Donaldson

• Exhibition:Sir Stuart Threipland’s medicine chest
  Peter Worling

• Notable fellow: Sir Byrom Bramwell (1847–1931)
  I Milne

Other

• Letters to the Editor

Online only

• Respiratory Medicine Symposium
  A Jones

• Struggling Trainees symposium report
  R Lee

• Diabetes Symposium 2011
  JT George