Volume 11 Number 4 contents

Editorial

Management and medicine: strange bedfellows or partners in crime?
Denis Smith

Personal perspectives

Is the role of clinical director bound to fail?
H McIntyre, B Graham and R Wray

Leadership in action: Peter Beck-Samuels
K Ibbeson

Supporting doctors: working with troubled teams
P Brankin

Management issues in healthcare

Management for medical students
C Davidson and C Boggis

An audit of documentation of breaking bad news: can we tell who said what to whom?
M Barnett, J Fisher, A Wild, H Cooke, C Irwin and J Dale

Social and organisational innovation in the NHS: the case of Warwickshire's Integrated Service Directorate for Palliative Care
R Adams, C Meystre and D Tranfield

Medical students' beliefs and attitudes towards the doctor's role: is management seen as an integral part of the role?
P Cavenagh

Commentated case study

Book reviews