PATIENTS & PRACTICE
Hail to the sheath: BC pays for a foreskin restoration surgery.

Anticipation: Predict the benefit of prophylactic surgery.

Huff & puff: Breathing techniques help asthmatics cope.

Cold cold heart: Emerg docs want cardiac patients on ice.

Rembrandt, MD: Med schools using art to hone eyes.

Fecund chance: What To Tell Your Patients about getting pregnant.

Grease out: BMJ's philippic on cholesterol guidelines.

Practice Management
Please don't go: Begging and pleading to keep staff from leaving should be your last option.

POLICY & POLITICS
Prescribing druggists: New AB law has MDs worried.

Pain med backlash: Will an NS doc's suspension trigger MD panic?

Baby's own: EU deal aims to spur drug research for kids.

ADVANCES IN MEDICINE
My beating heart: Device allows "living" organ transplants.

Mighty meds: News from an oncology meeting.

Dangerous curves: Montreal researcher's test for scoliosis.

PHYSICIAN LIFE
Nouvelle vague: Biker dude Dr John Dale's philosophical pursuit.

Country pedagogue: Med students open new horizons.

Personal Finance
Where to invest: Should you save for your kids' educations before putting cash away for retirement?

Departments
Editorial: Canada's big, fat lie
Editorial: Dr Couillard's subtle victory
Editorial: Cartoon
Editorial: Letters
News in brief:
Across Canada: News highlights from coast to coast to coast.
Medical History in Brief: Take a walk down medicine's oft-strange memory lane.
Sudoku puzzle: Test your 'rithmetic skills.