Canadian Medical Association Journal / Journal de l'Association médicale canadienne October 1, 1997 / Le 1er octobre 1997 CMAJ 1997; 157 (7) © 1997 Canadian Medical Association / Association médicale canadienne

Facing an old enemy

In this issue · Dans ce numéro 857 859 Editor's preface Mot du rédacteur en chef 863 News and analysis · Nouvelles et analyses Physicians: think twice before witnessing a will Canadian engineer left to his own devices CMA adds voice to call for land-mine ban Language barriers fall at Vancouver hospital WMA slams Egyptian court for "female-circumcision" decision Will Internet help reshape health care? National control strategy needed, cancer experts warn BC program hopes to double mammography screening Heady days for MD Management All of the responsibility, none of the control Too much of a good thing Impaired by fatigue How transmissable is mad cow disease? I don't remember, I don't recall Bald today, hair tomorrow Child-abuse survey stuns Ontarians 859 Letters · Correspondance [Instructions to correspondents / Directives aux correspondants] Putting a price on drugs, Joel Lexchin Foreign specialists need not apply, S.M.H. Alibhai Patient confidentiality and the law, M.A. Ross; response: D.Y. Dodek & A. Dodek This experiment has failed, D.A. Omahen; G.T. Riley Physician payment: incentives change with supply, B.R. Wilkinson Hep to hepatitis C, A.T.R. Powell A look at 350 years of physicians' fees in Quebec, J. Cohen The population explosion revisited, R. Shepherd Remembering Jimmy Quayle, J. O'Brien-Bell   Evidence · Études 879 Costs and benefits of routine follow-up after curative treatment for endometrial cancer, O.O. Agboola, E. Grunfeld, D. Coyle, G.A. Perry [abstract / résumé] 889 Inappropriate hospital use by patients receiving care for medical conditions: targeting utilization review, C. DeCoster, N.P. Roos, K.C. Carrière, S. Peterson [abstract / résumé]   Editorials · Éditoriaux 899 Is routine follow-up after endometrial cancer justified?, M.M. Cohen [full text / résumé] 901 Measuring the appropriateness of hospital use, D.J.W. Hunter [full text / résumé] 903 Adrenal incidentalomas: incidental in detection, not significance, T.C. Ooi [full text / résumé]   Education · Éducation 907 Report of the Canadian Hypertension Society Consensus Conference: 2. Nonpharmacologic management and prevention of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, J.-M. Moutquin, P.R. Garner, R.F. Burrows, E. Rey, M.E. Helewa, I.R. Lange, S.W. Rabkin [full text / résumé] 923 Pheochromocytoma manifesting with shock presents a clinical paradox: a case report, J. Ford, F. Rosenberg, N. Chan [full text / résumé]   Public health · Santé publique 927 Preventing influenza outbreaks in long-term care facilities [full text] 928 La prévention des flambées de grippe dans les établissements de soins de longue durée [texte complet]   Features · Chroniques 929 Cochlear implants: the head-on collision between medical technology and the right to be deaf, L. Swanson [full text / résumé] 934 Deportation proceedings against Canadian MDs may hold lesson for others heading south, M. Korcok [abstract / résumé] 936 "Take some action, take some risk," conference on rural recruiting told, M. OReilly [full text / résumé] 938 Looking back and looking ahead as the CMA turns 130, J. Bennett [full text / résumé] 940 Cost of malpractice protection on rise in UK, too, C. Richmond [abstract / résumé] 995 Deaths · Nécrologie   Pulse · Médicogramme 996 Higher earners seek more alternative care / Les personnes à revenus élevés recherchent davantage les soins parallèles 943 Books and other media · Livres et autres documents History of the Canadian Medical Association, 1954-94 945 On_the_Net@cma.ca · Sur_le_Net@cma.ca Resources · Ressources 946 Conferences · Conférences 959 Advertisers' index · Index des annonceurs 959 Prescribing index · Index de l'information sur les ordonnances 981 Service information · Renseignements aux lecteurs 962 Classified advertising · Annonces classées   ISSN 0820-3946 157 (7) 853-996 (1997)