May 2000

Contents

 3 BMA rejects Physician Assisted Suicide

 6 Back bench frolics

In this issue

 8 Consent for caesarian section:  Part 1: developement of the law - Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Thorpe

 14 Part 2: practical aspects - Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Thorpe

 19 Old age and the economy - Agneta Sutton

 25 Dr. Ernest Intention returns

 27 Tadpole observes

 28 Old frog opines

 31 Psychiatric reminiscence - Seymour Spencer

 31 News from the branches

 32 Lewis corner

 36 Obituaries