July 2008
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News
Newsbites
Drug company gifts, Cyclone Nargis, Chinese earthquake
Chaperones for intimate examinations
To protect doctors and patients
Letters
Sex selection in India and leaked exam questions
Editorials
Informed consent and intimate examinations
Refusing to examine anaesthetised women without consent
Scalpel injuries in the operating theatre
Standardise approaches to reduce risk
Life
Conscientious objection
The right to stand by moral convictions
Studying medicine in China
Surprising similarities to the UK
The most intense seven weeks of medical school
A surgical rotation in the US
Sport’s darker side
American footballers’ serious injuries
The secret lives of doctors
Is medicine the sum of your life?
Careers
Dealing with stress
Are you reluctant to seek help?
Academic medicine
Plan ahead for a career in academia
People
A respiratory doctor
Charles Hales is a doctor, researcher, and educator
A medic and beauty expert
Meet Shameela Islam-Zulfiqar, medic and beauty entrepreneur
Education
Multidisciplinary team meetings
Get more from these valuable opportunities for learning
Parkinson’s disease: a multidisciplinary approach
How do patients benefit?
Genetic engineering in sport
Will London 2012 see the first doping scandal?
Loin and low back pain
Take the picture quiz
Urinary incontinence after prolonged labour and caesarean section
Take the picture quiz
Paper+
Corticosteroids in acute respiratory distress syndrome
Get to grips with this meta-analysis
Frontiers
The month in research
Smoking and social networks, vascular access in haemodialysis, and more
Reviews
Racism
a professor’s memoirs
Eyespy
Spinach builds muscle, virtual medical consultations, and a writing competition
