Student BMJ December 1998 volume 6 Study suggests recreational use of "date rape" drug by women In brief Education Emergency! Picture Quiz You should know you're a medic: Does Viagra enhance your potency? Career focus: Balancing medicine with a life Net.philes ABC of sexual health: Management of sexual problems Papers Prospective study of post-traumatic stress disorder in children involved in road traffic accidents Antibiotics do not resolve acute cough Life Health and human rights in Kosova - A Kosova doctor's story Conflict recovery: towards evidence based medical aid? The not-so-secret diary of a medical student Planning your elective - Malaysia Life after leprosy Task force junior doctor Student soapbox: Alternative thinking Letters Consumption of drugs and drink among junior doctors Medical students' electives abroad Change in selection needs to be backed by hard evidence Combination therapy needs further discussion Videos, photographs, and patient consent Soundings Exercise, diets, and paranoia Where next? Reviews How to master Immunology: Immunology; Essentials of Clinical Immunology; Basic and Clinical Immunology Di Bella: The Man, the Cure, a Hope For All The Interactive Skeleton: Student Edition This Wild Darkness: The Story of my Death Clone - The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead Personal view Homophobia in medicine A very rare bleeding disorder Medicine and the media "Butchers and gropers" Minerva Editors choice "I will be in war. I will do everything until I die." These are the words of a young woman, barely 18 years old and a new member of the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA). She is speaking to a journalist. As she looks at the camera, she cradles her Kalashnikov machine gun - she calls it her best friend. She is a new recruit to a conflict that has escalated since 1989, when the effective autonomy of Kosova province within Serbia was ended by constitutional changes. A savage war - p 22 Since then, as Dr Ilir Tolaj writes on p 22, the Serbian assault on the civilian population and its clash with the KLA has resulted in the death of thousands of civilians, and hundreds of thousands fleeing their homes. An ethnic Albanian, Dr Tolaj explains how, in spite of the war, he and his colleagues have tried to provide health care for the people of Kosova and to help continue medical students' education. Conflict recovery - p 24 His story is intensely personal, and desperate. He talks about friends who have disappeared, doctors who have been killed, and medical students who have joined the armed struggle. He is recovering after surviving a land mine attack.. His temporary hospital is now closed. His story has no happy ending. The war is not over. The horrific injuries caused by war need urgent medical attention, but, as Dr Tolaj's article emphasises, this is difficult when the healthcare system is a casualty itself. Hugh Matthews interviews Jim Ryan (p 24), a consultant at University College London who runs a "conflict recovery" team. Conflict recovery is about helping a country rebuild its infrastructure after war or natural disaster. Jim Ryan describes work in Azerbaijan, where most of the hospitals were devasted as a result of civil war. Emergency! - p 8 He believes that doctors have a moral obligation to give of their skills and time, and also, hearteningly, he understands that to capture the enthusiasm of medical students, they must be given a meaningful role - "not just labour in a refugee camp."