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• Captain Webb's legacy: the perils of swimming the English Channel
• The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour
• Are "armchair socialists" still sitting? Cross sectional study of political affiliation and physical activity
• Against the odds in Las Vegas

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• Televised medical talk shows - what they recommend and the evidence to support their recommendations: a prospective observational study
• CARTOONS KILL: casualties in animated recreational theater in an objective observational new study of kids' introduction to loss of life
• Transmissibility of the Ice Bucket Challenge among globally influential celebrities: retrospective cohort study
• Healer, dealer, heart stealer: portrayals of the doctor in popular music
• Doctors: caring extroverts or self deluded chocoholics?

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• Medical training: some "forgotten" common competencies
• An exploration of the basis for patient complaints about the oldness of magazines in practice waiting rooms: cohort study
• The King Canute GP appointment system
• Operating theatre time, where does it all go? A prospective observational study
• Utility of Hippocrates' prognostic aphorism to predict death in the modern era: prospective cohort study
• A means of measuring serial changes in anal sphincter tone in patients with spinal cord compression
• Medical eponyms: taxonomies, natural history, and the evidence
• A novel clinical entity: the Campbell-Trachter syndrome

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• SearCh for humourIstic and Extravagant acroNyms and Thoroughly Inappropriate names For Important Clinical trials (SCIENTIFIC): qualitative and quantitative systematic study
• Use of Google Translate in medical communication: evaluation of accuracy
• English as she is mis-spoke, misread, and miswrote - or, why you should read before you sign

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• Are some diets "mass murder"?
• When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?
• Christmas dinner for doctors on duty: it's grimmer up north

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• The year of Francis
• Doctors need to take the lead on poverty's effects on health
• The Cochrane Collaboration at 20

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• Laughter and MIRTH (Methodical Investigation of Risibility, Therapeutic and Harmful): narrative synthesis
• Following celebrities' medical advice: meta-narrative analysis
• A unified model of patient safety (or "Who froze my cheese?")

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• Being right or being happy: pilot study
• A statin a day keeps the doctor away: comparative proverb assessment modelling study
• The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational study
• Were James Bond's drinks shaken because of alcohol induced tremor?
• The Brady Bunch? New evidence for nominative determinism in patients' health: retrospective, population based cohort study
• Morphology and size of stem cells from mouse and whale: observational study

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• Undercover surgeon: the night porter chronicle
• Growing up over the shop
• Surgery and anaesthesia during the heroic age of Antarctic exploration
• A prophet to modern medicine: Ernest Amory Codman
• "Compulsive plague! pain without end!" How Richard Wagner played out his migraine in the opera Siegfried

• An antecedent of later developing communicative functions: the fetal index finger
• Die another day
• The haiku as a research medium
• Slipper ulcers
• Back to school anatomy: just add Plasticine
• An approach to the obstructive colleague
• Operating room safety: 10 point plan to safe flinging

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• When managers rule
• Dirty, deluded, and dangerous
• Everyone could enjoy the "survival advantage" of elite athletes

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• Doctors on television: analysis of doctors' experiences during filming of a documentary in the workplace
• An early British case of neuromyelitis optica (1850)
• Is it time for an evidence based uniform for doctors?

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• Why Rudolph's nose is red: observational study
• Using a dog's superior olfactory sensitivity to identify Clostridium difficile in stools and patients: proof of principle
• Mind wandering and driving: responsibility case-control study
• Pain over speed bumps in diagnosis of acute appendicitis: diagnostic accuracy study
• Nutritional content of supermarket ready meals and recipes by television chefs in the United Kingdom: cross sectional study
• Building a metaphor: Another brick in the wall?
• A shaggy dog story
• The tooth fairy and malpractice

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• Mortality in former Olympic athletes: retrospective cohort analysis
• Survival of the fittest: retrospective cohort study of the longevity of Olympic medallists in the modern era
• What football teaches us about researching complex health interventions

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• Using speed of ageing and "microlives" to communicate the effects of lifetime habits and environment
• All in this together: the corporate capture of public health
• Learning from the abolitionists, the first social movement

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• Gastroscopic painting
• Push, pull, squeeze, clamp: 100 years of changes in the management of the third stage of labour as described by Ten Teachers
• Bringing surgical history to life

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• Can I take a space flight? Considerations for doctors
• Case report of E.T.  - The Extra-Terrestrial

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• Death can be our friend
• When balance is bias
• Recognising the potential of cities
• Three planks of the Pirate Party's platform that matter to doctors

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• Cod liver oil and tuberculosis
• Political correctness: a step too far?
• Dosing of oral penicillins in children: is big child = half an adult, small child = half a big child, baby = half a small child still the best we can do?
• High salt meals in staff canteens of salt policy makers: observational study
• The royal road to healing: a bit of a saga

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• How fast does the Grim Reaper walk? Receiver operating characteristics curve analysis in healthy men aged 70 and over
• Is 27 really a dangerous age for famous musicians? Retrospective cohort study
• A series of unfortunate events? Morbidity and mortality in a Borsetshire village
• Should the skeleton of "the Irish giant" be buried at sea?
• Death without the sting

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• Manchester United induced addisonian crisis
• Prize your eyes
• Was James Joyce myopic or hyperopic?
• The writing's on the wall for Sherlock
• Beethoven's deafness and his three styles
• What Three Wise Men have to say about diagnosis

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• Who gets struck off?
• Qualifications of a good surgeon
• Orthopaedic surgeons: as strong as an ox and almost twice as clever?
• Relevance of the expression "obs stable" in nursing observations: retrospective study
• When is a "free" registrar in clinic not free?
• Inguinal hernioplasty using mosquito net mesh in low income countries: an alternative and cost effective prosthesis
• N of 1, two contemporary arm, randomised controlled clinical trial for bilateral epicondylitis: a new study design
• Christmas picture quiz

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• Self experimentation and the Nuremberg Code
• The private finance initiative: the gift that goes on taking
• Strategies for coping with information overload

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• Red for danger: the effects of red hair in surgical practice
• Middle ear instrument nomenclature: a taxonomic approach
• The IKEA pencil: a surprising find in the NHS

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• Effect on gastric function and symptoms of drinking wine, black tea, or schnapps with a Swiss cheese fondue: randomised controlled crossover trial
• Testing the validity of the Danish urban myth that alcohol can be absorbed through feet: open labelled self experimental study
• Beauty sleep: experimental study on the perceived health and attractiveness of sleep deprived people
• Can he fix it? Yes, he can!

 ...und auf Deutsch

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• Urine output on an intensive care unit: case-control study
• Phantom vibration syndrome among medical staff: a cross sectional survey
• The barrier method as a new tool to assist in career selection: covert observational study
• Bicycle weight and commuting time: randomised trial

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• A modest proposal
• Liberating the NHS acronym
• Are there too many referral forms?
• Reflections of Father Christmas's GP

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• In praise of the physical examination
• Secret remedies: 100 years on
• World hunger: a reasonable proposal
• Where have all the hospital flowers gone?

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• Journal of another plague year
• Will it all go wrong? Sod's law and medicine
• Patent medicines and secret remedies
• I should cocoa
• The Spanish influenza pandemic seen through the BMJ's eyes: observations and unanswered questions
• BMJ archive: the videos
• Ingested foreign bodies and societal wealth: three year observational study of swallowed coins

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• A gold elixir of youth in the 16th century French court
• Lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House
• Stigma and prejudice in Tintin
• Animated ophthalmology
• Lying obliquely - a clinical sign of cognitive impairment: cross sectional observational study
• Darwin's illness revisited
• House calls: The case of the entertaining case
• George Clooney, the cauliflower, the cardiologist, and phi, the golden ratio

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• Christmas quiz
• Christmas quiz: Answers
• Santa Claus: a public health pariah?
• Ethical dilemma

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• The association of early IQ and education with mortality: 65 year longitudinal study in Malmö, Sweden
• Perceived age as clinically useful biomarker of ageing: cohort study
• Retrospective analysis of attitudes to ageing in the Economist: apocalyptic demography for opinion formers

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• Brain maps
• Wards of the roses
• Selling patients
• H-index pathology: implications for medical researchers and practitioners
• Evidence based merriment
• The surgical sieve

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• Understanding the role of the doctor
• Left-right discrimination in medicine
• Learning from emergencies
• The health of nations BMJ

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• Mortality on Mount Everest,
• Voices in the air
• Rugby (the religion of Wales) and its influence on the Catholic church: should Pope Benedict XVI be worried?
• Is golf bad for your hearing?

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• Frankincense: systematic review
• Appointments timed in proximity to annual milestones and compliance with screening: randomised controlled trial
• Festive medical myths

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• Reappraising Florence Nightingale
• Auntibiotics: the BBC, penicillin, and the second world war
• Churchill's flu poem

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• Not what we used to be?
• Deport that student
• Not becoming a communist doctor
• Right-left discrimination among medical students: questionnaire and psychometric study
• The left handed surgical trainee