217   Editor's pick

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217   This month in wjm

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Is it ethical to lie to secure hospital admission?

220    Yes: Lying is sometimes in the patient's best interests

Mark A Graber
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221    No: Lying undermines the practice of medicine

Kenneth D Pimple
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222   Health care without harm: an ethical imperative

Steve Heilig, Thomasine Kushner, David Thomasma
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223   The poor health of farm workers

David Lighthall
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225   The unhealthy alliance between academia and corporate America

Spyros Andreopoulos
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227   It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Scott Youngquist, Richard Usatine
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Media Watch

229    Sound surgeons

Gavin Yamey
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Beyond Our Borders

231    Cervical cancer in the developing world

Jacqueline Sherris, Cristina Herdman, Christopher Elias
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234   Rape is not violence masquerading as sex

Jay Davis
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234   Author's response

Judith Mackay
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235   Data correction

Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Barry Popkin, Claude Cavadini
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236   Role conflicts of physicians and their family members: rules but no rulebook

Frederick M Chen, Chris Feudtner, Lorna A Rhodes, Larry A Green
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240    Commentary   Daughter and doctor: two conflicting roles

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240   Reliability of bimanual pelvic examinations performed in emergency departments

Reb J H Close, Carolyn J Sachs, Pamela L Dyne
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244    Commentary   How good is the pelvic examination, and is it being upstaged by newer technologies?

Mary-Ann Shafer
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Straight to the Point

246    Hyperlipidemia: Part 1. Evaluation and dietary management

Michael Tanner, Nate Link
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Evidence-based Case Review

251    Addressing the religious and spiritual needs of dying patients

Daniel P Sulmasy
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254    An evidence-based approach to managing seizures associated with fever in children

Martin Offringa, Virginia A Moyer
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Topics in Review

260    Who should know about our genetic makeup and why?

Tuija Takala, Heta Aleksandra Gylling
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263    The Stark II regulations: an analysis

Lisa Chase
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266    Commentary   A response from Congressman Pete Stark

Congressman Pete Stark
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267   Are cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitors free of gastrointestinal side effects?

Ingvar Bjarnason, K D Rainsford
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269   Hypnosis and relaxation therapies

Andrew Vickers, Catherine Zollman, David K Payne
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Voice of Students

273    Discriminating positively: preferential acceptance of minorities may be good for society

Jason O'Neale Roach
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274    Cutaneous melanoma: learning to see

Phung M Huynh, David J Elpern
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275    Myth: An elevated leukocyte count distinguishes septic arthritis from less serious causes of hip pain

Laurie Yamanaka, Mel E Herbert
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277   Immigrant women's health: Infectious diseases — Part 2

Robin Avery
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280   In the patient's best interest? Revisiting sexual autonomy and sterilization of the developmentally disabled

Hoangmai H Pham, Barron H Lerner
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284   Caring for the dying: why is it so hard for physicians?

Paul Rousseau
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288   Confronting death

David Heiden
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226   Mental illness in the movies

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228   Queue jumping in health care

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230   Netphiles

Gavin Yamey
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233   Asking patients about guns

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259   Sponsorship, authorship, and accountability

Michael S Wilkes
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266   Remember small-town hospitals?

Billie Lou Cantwell
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283   A question of gender

Hillary Don
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