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Volume 181 Issue 11

13 December 2004

Journal activities

The year in review

Bronwyn Gaut

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 589-591

How does it feel? You've won the MJA Christmas Competition!

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 654

Editorials

Australian healthcare: purposeful reform or three more years of political rhetoric?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 593-594

“Without research, there is no hope”

Mary JC Hendrix

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 594-595

South Pacific

Doctors in the Pacific

David A K Watters and David F Scott

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 597-601

A Fijian perspective on providing a medical workforce

Wame R Baravilala and Robert F W Moulds

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 602

Taking the family to East Timor

Carolyn L Beckett

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 603-604

A two-year placement in the Solomon Islands

Rosalie Schultz

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 604-605

Tailoring medical education in Papua New Guinea to the needs of the country

Isi H Kevau, John D Vince and Jean V McPherson

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 608-610

Practising in rural Papua New Guinea

Harry Poka

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 609

Papua New Guinea: targeting research to things that matter

John C Reeder

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 610-611

Sirus Naraqi, CBE, MD, FACP, FRACP

Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 611 Free

Inequity in child health: what are the sustainable Pacific solutions?

Trevor Duke

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 612-614

Power of one

Following fortune’s path

Tom Reeve

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 615-619

An accidental career in a new discipline

Helen P Beange

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 620-622

Doctor–artists

A fragile dilemma

Marc D Grunseit

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 623-625

“The doctor is an artist”

Susan Byth

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 626-627

Out of captivity

Lesley C Adès

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 628-630

Banting — a Nobel artist

Joanne C Elliot

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 631

Holiday reading

A legal outcome observed

John H T Ellard

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11):

Death and sex make a good read

Christine Hampshire

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11):

Secrets and silences

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11):

Overseas-trained doctors

Arriving in Australia: overseas-trained doctors

Martin B Van Der Weyden and Mabel Chew

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 633-634

Australian policy on overseas-trained doctors

Robert J Birrell

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 635-639 Free

Integration of overseas-trained doctors into the Australian medical workforce

Barry P McGrath

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 640-642 Free

What’s in a name?

Ranjana Srivastava and Declan J Green

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 643-644

Uncovering an invisible workforce

Catherine M Joyce

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 645

True stories

Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in a blizzard

Bruce W S Robinson and Mark G Edwards

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 646-648

The fallibility of memory: a natural experiment

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 649

A seachange for a city GP

Glynis A Johns

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 650-651 Free

The profession

Leadership in medicine: where are the leaders?

S Bruce Dowton

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 652-654 Free

Medical politics in Australia in the 1870s

David Molloy

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 655-657

Medical education

International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine (ICRAM): what does it mean for Australia?

David Wilkinson and Robyn L Ward

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 658-659

Jeopardising a Hippocratic tradition

David P Weller, Richard F Heller and Konrad Jamrozik

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 660-661

The new Australian medical schools: daring to be different

Kerrie A Lawson, Mabel Chew and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 662-666

Cry from the heart

A time to die

Michael J Mackay

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 667-668

The Brazil Project

Ron Elisha

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 669-670

Christmas offerings

Smoking status of 132 176 people advertising on a dating website

Simon Chapman, Melanie A Wakefield and Sarah J Durkin

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 672-674 Free

Climate and government: weather, health and electoral outcome

Rosemary Aldrich

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 675-676

Patient–oxygen dissociation curves: surveying the spectrum of oxygen-delivery methods

John R Attia, Balakrishnan R Nair, Stephen R Mears and Karen I Hitchcock

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 677-678 Free

A chilling thought for Christmas 2004: might the newborn Christ have been hypothermic?

Tieh-Hee Koh and Marion R Koh

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 680-681

The perils of pet ownership: a new fall-injury risk factor

Susan E Kurrle, Robert Day and Ian D Cameron

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 682-683 Free

Bites and stings

Antivenom, anecdotes and evidence

Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 685-686

Snakebite mortality at Port Moresby General Hospital, Papua New Guinea, 1992–2001

Forbes McGain, Ken D Winkel, Aaron Limbo, David J Williams and Gertrude Didei

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 687-691 Free

Snakebite in tropical Australia: a prospective study in the “Top End” of the Northern Territory

Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 693-697 Free

Irukandji syndrome in northern Western Australia: an emerging health problem

Conrad J Macrokanis, Nicole L Hall and Jacki K Mein

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 699-702 Free

Antivenom dosing in 35 patients with severe brown snake (Pseudonaja) envenoming in Western Australia over 10 years

Justin M Yeung, Frank F S Daly, Mark Little, Lindsay M Murray and George A Jelinek

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 703-705 Free

Do box jellyfish sleep at night?

Jamie E Seymour, Teresa J Carrette and Paul A Sutherland

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 707

Letters

Reactive arthritis and vasculitis in a child due to Ross River virus infection

Kynan T Feeney, Kevin J Murray, Amanda J Whittle and Gary K Dowse

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 710

Perception of seasonal changes in physical activity among young Australian and German women

Tanja Hechler, Josephine Y Chau, Sarah Giesecke and Silja Vocks

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 710-711

GP payment: not just how, but how much

James A Dickinson

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 711

Practice nurses

Sandy L A Reid

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 711-712

Mobile phones and asthma: there is a correlation!

Gaudenz M Hafen and John Massie

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 712

Quotable quotes

Not for print

Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 671

Snapshot

SARS in a can!

Guy D Eslick

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 596 Free

Going with the flow: Ascaris lumbricoides in a T-tube

Ilyas Baskonus, Gokturk Maralcan, Abdullah Serin and Necdet Aybasti

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 619 Free

Short circuit

Nathan Lawrentschuk and Paul A Kearns

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 634 Free

Retro spleen

Sam McCormack

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 642 Free

More art of medicine

Iain J Skinner

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 644 Free

Steps to recovery

Annmarie A Bosco and Giselle Kidson-Gerber

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 645 Free

Antarctic emergency

Geoffrey A Couser

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 648 Free

The body shop — Asian style

Dhushan Illesinghe

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 651 Free

Intracranial penetration

Hossein Sanaei-Zadeh, Kamran Aghakhani and Mansour Parvaresh

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 670 Free

Valve-spring headache

Sam McCormack

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 708 Free

Little boy lost

Brad Milner

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 708 Free

The Lion King

Steven R Doherty

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 712 Free