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    Medical Journal of Australia: Volume 203, Issue 6

    240-271
    September 2015
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Editorials

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Paramedics and scope of practice

Gerard J FitzGerald MD, FACEM, FRACMA, 
  • Pages: 240-241
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

News

From the NHMRC

Special collection on Indigenous health

Davina Ghersi PhD, MPH,  Samantha Faulkner BA, 
  • Page: 242
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

News briefs

Cate Swannell, 
  • Page: 243
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

Perspectives

Financing options to sustain Medicare: are we committed to universalism?

Tracey-Lea Laba PhD, BPharm(Hons), BSc(AppChem)(Hons),  Beverley M Essue MPH, PhD,  Stephen Jan PhD, MEc, BEc, 
  • Pages: 244-245
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

Geographic inequity in healthy food environment and type 2 diabetes: can we please turn off the tap?

Thomas Astell-Burt PhD,  Xiaoqi Feng PhD, 
  • Pages: 246-248
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

Short Reports

The Murray to the Mountains Intern Training Program

John B Best AO, MD BS, PhD,  Jacque Phillips OAM, MPS,  Terry Welch GradDipHlthServiceMt, BApplSci(Nursing), GAICD,  Shane Boyer BHlthSci(HlthProm),  Craig DeLacy RN RM BN,  Geoffrey J McColl MB BS, BMedSc, MEd, PhD, 
  • Page: 249
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

Pattern of malignant mesothelioma incidence and occupational exposure to asbestos in Western Australia

Arthur W (Bill) Musk MD, MSc, MB BS,  Nola Olsen BAppSc, RGN,  Helman Alfonso PhD,  Susan Peters PhD,  Peter Franklin PhD, 
  • Pages: 251-252
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss secondary to metronidazole ototoxicity

Anthony Rotman MB BS,  Philip Michael FRCSEd(ORL-HNS), DLO, MA(ODE),  Michael Tykocinski MD, FRACS,  Stephen J O'Leary MB BS, PhD, FRACS, 
  • Page: 253
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

The AMA Specialist Trainee Survey 2014: a survey of hospital-based specialty trainees and general practice registrars

Julian Grabek MB BS,  James A Churchill MB BS, BMedSc,  Sally Banfield MB BS, BMedSci, 
  • Pages: 254-255
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

For Debate

How changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule could improve the practice of cardiology and save taxpayer money

Richard W Harper MB BS, FRACP, FCSANZ,  Arthur Nasis MB BS(Hons), MD, PhD,  Vijaya Sundararajan BA(Hons), MD, MPH, 
  • Pages: 256-258
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

Research

Lost productive life years caused by chronic conditions in Australians aged 45–64 years, 2010–2030

Deborah J Schofield PhD, BSpPath, GradDipComp,  Rupendra N Shrestha PhD, MSc, BSc,  Michelle Cunich PhD, MEc, BEc,  Robert Tanton PhD,  Simon Kelly PhD, MS, BAppSc,  Megan E Passey PhD, BMed(Hons), MPH,  Lennert J Veerman PhD, MPH, MD, 
  • Page: 260
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

The Cardiac Genetics Clinic: a model for multidisciplinary genomic medicine

Dominica Zentner MB BS(Hons), FRACP, PhD,  Tina N Thompson BNurs,  Paul A James MB ChB, DPhil, FRACP,  Alison Trainer MB ChB, MSc, PhD,  Lesley C Adès MB BS, FRACP, MD,  Ivan Macciocca BSc, MHSc(GenCouns), FHGSA,  Jessica A Taylor BSc, MGenCouns,  Kirsty Mann BSc, MGenCouns,  Michael Bogwitz BSc(Hons), GradDipGenCouns, PhD,  Nigel Lewis MB ChB, MRCP, CCDS,  Natalie Morgan BNurs, GradDip(GenCouns),  Jitendra Vohra MD, FRACP, FRCP,  Ingrid Winship MD, FRACP, FACD, 
  • Page: 261
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

Success in Closing the Gap: favourable neonatal outcomes in a metropolitan Aboriginal Maternity Group Practice Program

Christina Bertilone MB BS, FRACGP, MPH,  Suzanne McEvoy FAFPHM, MAppEpid, PhD, 
  • Page: 262
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

Case Reports

Crush injury by an elephant: life-saving prehospital care resulting in a good recovery

Alice M Young MB BS,  Anthony P Joseph FACEM,  Alicia Jackson RN, 
  • Pages: 264-265
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

Lessons from Practice

Beware of blotting paper hallucinogens: severe toxicity with NBOMes

Geoffrey K Isbister BSc, FACEM, MD,  Alphonse Poklis PhD,  Justin L Poklis BSc,  Jeffrey Grice PhD, 
  • Pages: 266-267
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

Ethics and Law

Transplantation of the heart after circulatory death of the donor: time for a change in law?

James Tibballs MD, MHlth,  Neera Bhatia LLB(Hons), LLM, PhD, 
  • Pages: 268-270
  • First Published: 21 September 2015

Reflections

Poem

The days are getting shorter

Rae Desmond Jones, 
  • Page: 271
  • First Published: 21 September 2015