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Table of contents
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Preface
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
200
Hospital based smoking cessation: A review of the literature
Emergency Medicine
204
Emergency intubation of the supine patient on the ground
Infectious Diseases
208
Smallpox: A renewed public health concern
Poem
210
An inventor of bones
News and Views
211
In the literature
213
Back to basics X: Understanding general anaesthetics: Properties and clinical applications
219
Law and ethics in medicine: Ethical considerations of genetic testing in minors for late onset disease
222
Law and ethics in medicine: Big enough to drive a car bomb through: The need for new quarantine laws and procedures to combat bioterrorism
225
Evidence-Based Medicine, Part 2: Evidence and the introduction of new therapies into practice
231
Prolific Scientist Profiles: Interview with Dr. Donna E. Stewart, Lillian Love Chair in Women's Health
Morning Report
236
A little extra goes a long way
Clinicopathological Correlation
236
Pelvic mass: Appearance is not everything
Quick Diagnosis
245
Medical Education
249
Interview with Dr. Ian Johnson
Complementary & Alternative Medicine
249
Bioprospecting or Biopiracy? The pharmaceutical industry's use of indigenous medicinal plants as a source of potential drug candidates
Economics and Health Policy
255
Issues in prostate cancer screening using PSA
257
Planning physician services: Is there a method to the madness?
Historical Review
263
Because it's there: Morals, medicine and masturbation in the nineteenth century
Book Reviews
266
Basic pathology: An introduction to the mechanisms of disease
266
Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 9th Ed.
267
Pricing life: Why it's time for health care rationing
268
The complete allergy book
268
Body of knowledge: One semester of gross anatomy, the gateway to becoming a doctor
269
The Shoulder, 2nd Ed.
Front cover illustration by Jen Polk
Department of Biomedical Communications, University of Toronto
Department of Biomedical Communications, University of Toronto