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    Medical Journal of Australia: Volume 182, Issue 12

    601-656
    June 2005
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From the Editor's Desk

Mentors and mentoring

Martin B Van Der Weyden, 
  • Page: 601
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

In This Issue

  • Page: 603
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Editorials

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The easiest cut: managing elective surgery in the public sector

Patrick C Cregan FRACS, 
  • Pages: 605-606
  • First Published: 20 June 2005
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Clinicians prescribing exercise: is air pollution a hazard?

James E Sharman BHM(Hons), PhD, 
  • Pages: 606-607
  • First Published: 20 June 2005
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Tailoring access to high cost, genetically targeted drugs

Wayne D Hall AM, PhD,  Robyn Ward MB BS, FRACP, PhD,  Winston S Liauw MB BS, MMedSci, FRACP,  Jo-anne E Brien BPharm, BS(Pharm), PharmD,  Christine Y Lu BPharm, MSc, 
  • Pages: 607-608
  • First Published: 20 June 2005
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Is this clinical trial fully registered?

Catherine D De Angelis,  Jeffrey M Drazen,  Frank A Frizelle,  Charlotte Haug,  John Hoey,  Richard C Horton,  Sheldon Kotzin,  Christine Laine,  Ana Marusic,  A John P M Overbeke,  Torben V Schroeder,  Harold C Sox,  Martin B Van Der Weyden, 
  • Pages: 609-610
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Research

Cancellation of operations on the day of intended surgery at a major Australian referral hospital

William N Schofield MA, DipEdPsych,  George L Rubin FAFPHM, FACR,  Michael Piza BA(Hons), MPH,  Ying Yin Lai MScApplStat,  Doungkamol Sindhusake BA, MPH, PhD,  Michael R Fearnside MS, FRACS,  Peter L Klineberg FANZCA, 
  • Pages: 612-615
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Medicine and the Community

A community-based intervention to reduce antibiotic use for upper respiratory tract infections in regional South Australia

William B Dollman BPharm, MAppSc, FSHP,  Vanessa T LeBlanc BA(Psych),  Lynette Stevens,  Peter J O'Connor PhD,  John D Turnidge MB BS, FRACP, FRCPA, 
  • Pages: 617-620
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Position Statement

Adult domiciliary oxygen therapy. Position statement of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand

Christine F McDonald PhD, FRACP,  Alan J Crockett PSM, MPH,  Iven H Young BSc, MB BS, PhD, FRACP, 
  • Pages: 621-626
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Systematic Review

Effectiveness of treatments for depression in older people

Cathy J Frazer PhD,  Helen Christensen PhD,  Kathleen M Griffiths PhD, 
  • Pages: 627-632
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Personal Perspective

Sight-seeing in the Solomon Islands

Michelle L Baker MB BS, 
  • Pages: 633-634
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Notable Cases

Severe renal failure and nephrocalcinosis in anorexia nervosa

Matthew A Roberts FRACP,  Duncan P MacGregor FRCPA, PhD,  Nick Paoletti FRANZCP,  Francesco L Ierino PhD,  Campbell R Thorpe FRANZCP, MPsych, 
  • Pages: 635-636
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Diagnostic Dilemmas

Potential pitfalls in the diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma

Jane L Harding MB BS,  Michael W Yeh MD,  Leigh W Delbridge MD, FRACS,  Stan B Sidhu MB BS, FRACS,  Bruce G Robinson MD, FRACP, 
  • Pages: 637-639
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Obituary

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Raymond Herbert KernuttMB BS, MS, FRCS, FRACS

Peter W Graham, 
  • Page: 640
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Book Reviews

Quit Facts

Ron Borland, 
  • Page: 641
  • First Published: 28 April 2005

Flu facts

Michael G Catton, 
  • First Published: 28 April 2005

Snapshot

Complete section of pacemaker lead due to subclavian crush

Stephane L Noble MD,  Haran Burri MD,  Henri Sunthorn MD, 
  • Page: 643
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

MJA Practice Essentials – Paediatrics

11. Fractures and minor head injuries: minor injuries in children II

Simon J Young MB BS, DipCrim, FACEM,  Peter L J Barnett MB BS, FRACP, FACEM,  Ed A Oakley MB BS, FACEM, 
  • Pages: 644-648
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory, 
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Letters

Should thyroxine tablets be refrigerated? Have we got it wrong in Australia?

Jim Stockigt, 
  • Page: 650
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Should thyroxine tablets be refrigerated? Have we got it wrong in Australia?

Ovais Siddiqui, 
  • Page: 650
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome: still a problem

Christopher M MacIsaac,  Mark A Page,  Beverley-Ann Biggs,  Kumar Visvanathan, 
  • Pages: 651-652
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Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome: still a problem

Patrick M Schlievert, 
  • Pages: 651-652
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Weight gain and diabetes with “second-generation” antipsychotic drugs

Andrew Firestone, 
  • Pages: 652-653
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

A syndromic rash in patients attending methadone clinics in New South Wales

Vernon J Heazlewood, 
  • Pages: 653-654
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

A syndromic rash in patients attending methadone clinics in New South Wales

Rodney D Sinclair, 
  • Pages: 653-654
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A syndromic rash in patients attending methadone clinics in New South Wales

Jon N Currie,  Lisa Snell,  Elizabeth M Benson, 
  • Pages: 653-654
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Life-threatening milk-alkali syndrome resulting from antacid ingestion during pregnancy

Huy A Tran, 
  • Pages: 654-655
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Life-threatening milk-alkali syndrome resulting from antacid ingestion during pregnancy

Adam P Morton, 
  • Pages: 654-655
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Life-threatening milk-alkali syndrome resulting from antacid ingestion during pregnancy

Michelle V Gordon,  P Shane Hamblin,  Lawrence P McMahon, 
  • Pages: 654-655
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Poem

Thus we see

Stephen Leeder AO, 
  • Page: 655
  • First Published: 20 June 2005

Correction

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Point-of-care testing of HbA1c and blood glucose in a remote Aboriginal Australian community

David D Martin MB BS, PhD,  Timothy W Jones DCH, FRACP,  Elizabeth A Davis FRACP,  Mark D S Shephard MSc, MAACB,  Hayley Freeman RN,  Graeme P Maguire MPHTM, FRACP, PhD, 
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  • First Published: 20 June 2005