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Volume 196 Issue 2

6 February 2012

Editor's choice

The 4-hour rule: does lowering the temperature treat the system?

Annette Katelaris

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 87 Free

Editorials

Emergency department overcrowding: the solution to any problem is a matter of relativity

George Braitberg

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 88-89

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health: paradise lost?

Robert M Parker

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 89-90 Free

Improving the health of Australian children entering out-of-home care

Graham V Vimpani, Susan M Webster and Meredith J Temple-Smith

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 91-92

In brief

From the Cochrane Library: No end to pain in rheumatoid arthritis and a mixed report on self-monitoring

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 94

News

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 95

Perspectives

Clinical pathways: a departure from the art of medicine

Ralph K Nanan, Alison S Poulton and Bernard L Champion

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 96

Clinical deterioration in hospital inpatients: the need for another paradigm shift

Daryl A Jones, Nicola J Dunbar and Rinaldo Bellomo

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 97-100

Emergency and acute medical admissions: insights from US and UK visits by a Melbourne tertiary health service

Harvey H Newnham, Pieter De Villiers Smit, Martin J Keogh, Andrew M Stripp and Peter A Cameron

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 101-103

A plea for professional independence

Hans Peter Dietz and Barrie J Stokes

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 104-105

The Sydney University Medical Program: highlights and lessons

Kerry J Goulston and R Kim Oates

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 106-107

Letters

Wind farms and health: who is fomenting community anxieties?

Daniel Shepherd

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 108

What is wrong with Medicare?

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 108

Should doctors feel able to practise according to their personal values and beliefs?

William R Adam

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 109

Should doctors feel able to practise according to their personal values and beliefs?

Murat Civaner

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 109

Should more Australian doctors be salaried than paid by fee-for-service?

Matthew H R Anstey and Stephen P Gildfind

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 109-110

Increasing numbers of inmate separations from Australian prisons

Kristy A Martire and Sarah Larney

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 110

Impact of incident location on long-term pedestrian mortality and major trauma in inner Sydney

Matthew Oliver, Michael M Dinh, Susan Roncal, Soufiane Boufous, Bernardino Branco and Christopher M Byrne

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 110-111

An unrecognised case of tenofovir-associated Fanconi syndrome

David M Gracey, Mangalee Fernando, John Ziegler, Christopher P White and Jeffrey J Post

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 111-112

Barriers to recruitment in cancer trials: no longer medical oncologists’ attitudes

Rachel F Dear, Alexandra L Barratt and Martin H N Tattersall

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 112-113

Conflict of interest guidelines for clinical guidelines

Peter J McLaren

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 113

Clinical focus

Memory loss

Leon A Flicker, Andrew H Ford, Christopher D Beer and Osvaldo P Almeida

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 114-117 Free

Mental health of Indigenous Australians: a review of findings from community surveys

Anthony F Jorm, Sarah J Bourchier, Stefan Cvetkovski and Gavin Stewart

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 118-121 Free

Research

Emergency department overcrowding, mortality and the 4-hour rule in Western Australia

Gary C Geelhoed and Nicholas H de Klerk

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 122-126 Free

Emergency department targets: a watershed for outcomes research?

Drew B Richardson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 126-127 Free

Demand at the emergency department front door: 10-year trends in presentations

Judy A Lowthian, Andrea J Curtis, Damien J Jolley, Johannes U Stoelwinder, John J McNeil and Peter A Cameron

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 128-132 Free

Psychosis in Indigenous populations of Cape York and the Torres Strait

Ernest M Hunter, Bruce D Gynther, Carrick J Anderson, Leigh-ann L Onnis, Jeffrey R Nelson, Wayne Hall, Bernhard T Baune and Aaron R Groves

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 133-135 Free

Targeted primary care-based mental health services for young Australians

Elizabeth M Scott, Daniel F Hermens, Nicholas Glozier, Sharon L Naismith, Adam J Guastella and Ian B Hickie

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 136-140 Free

Reflections

Doctors and writing: stranger than fiction?

Dawn Barker

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 141

Anthony Siew-Yin Leong

Huy A Tran, Glen E M Reeves and Frederick W Hetherington

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 142 Free

Walter Lowen

Richard J Lowen, Mark Lowen and Norma Gilbert

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 142 Free

Understanding whiplash

David G Vivian

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 143

Holistic medical education

Richard B Hays

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): 143

Careers

The human face of medicine

Amanda Bryan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): C1 Free

Dr Jocelyn Shand reflects on her career in oral and maxillofacial surgery

Amanda Bryan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): C1 Free

A worthwhile plan - Business plans help practices focus on their long-term goals

Kath

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): C6 Free

Medicine behind bars - Providing medical care to those in custody

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): C8 Free

Dr Ricky Kumar is a final year oral and maxillofacial surgery trainee based at Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia

Amanda Bryan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (2): C2 Free