Volume 166 Issue 1

Editorials

• Guns and suicide in Australia Graham Martin, Robert D Goldney (MJA 1997; 166: 5)
• The 21st-century hospital Jeffrey Braithwaite (MJA 1997; 166: 6)
• Women and men and the medical workforce in Australia Carolyn Quadrio (MJA 1997; 166: 7)

Health Care

• The GP-hospital interface: attitudes of general practitioners to tertiary teaching hospitals David R Isaac, Alan J Gijsbers, Kim T Wyman, Raymond F Martyres, B Anne Garrow (MJA 1997; 166: 9)
• Crying in hospitals: a survey of doctors', nurses' and medical students' experience and attitudes Renate E Wagner, Martina Hexel, Wolfdieter W Bauer, Ulrich Kropiunigg (MJA 1997; 166: 13)
• What is the future of the hospital system? Paul A Komesaroff, Gordon J A Clunie, Stephen J Duckett (MJA 1997; 166: 17)

Notable Cases

• Lead poisoning in an electrician: a bad substitute for a bad habit M Steven Ward, Andrew M Henderson, Enrico Rossi, John L Raven (MJA 1997; 166: 23)

Medicine and the Community

• Breast cancer in rural Australia Colin M Furnival (MJA 1997; 166: 25)
• Breast cancer management: a rural perspective Bruce R Tulloh, Marjorie E Goldsworthy (MJA 1997; 166: 26)

Viewpoint

• The changing face of pathology in Australia: implications for public and private services Eric Sumithran (MJA 1997; 166: 30)

MJA Practice Essentials - Rheumatology

• Gout and other crystal arthropathies Neil W McGill (MJA 1997; 166: 33)

Clinical Practice

• Palliative care: an update on "terminal restlessness" Alexandra L Burke (MJA 1997; 166: 39)

Computer Viruses

• Safe practices in cyberspace: a medical perspective on computer viruses Ian R Cheong, Michael R Kidd (MJA 1997; 166: 44)

Doctors in Literature

• The portrayal of the doctor in non-medical literature: the impaired doctor Solomon Posen (MJA 1997; 166: 48)