Letter: Doctors, drivers, and confidentiality.

Letter: Myocardial infarction and H.G.V. drivers.

An open letter to Doctors Mather and Bannon.

C heer up! You are not alone in your concern for our specialty: the fall in recruitment to family practice residencies in the USA is sufficient for it to be overtaken by paediatrics and the declining attraction of internal medicine to US medical students was lamented by two American physicians who quoted a Texan saying ‘‘when the horse dies, get off’’. Is (community) paediatrics dying or dead? ...

[Confidentiality].

Confidentiality.

A Functional Look at Back Pain and Treatment Methods REPRINTED FROM THE TOWNSEND LETTER FOR DOCTORS

This essay presents a radical departure from the conventional viewpoint of clinical therapeutics. It states that to resolve back pain often requires neither strengthening nor stretching, neither mechanical skeletal adjustment nor application of electrical stimulation, heat or cold, neither muscle relaxants nor surgery. In many cases, to resolve back pain requires nothing more than improving the...