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Volume 178 Issue 4

17 February 2003

From the editor’s desk

The feminine touch

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 145 Free

eMJA: In This Issue, 17 February 2003

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 146 Free

Editorials

How good is the newly graduated doctor and can we measure it?

H Thomas Aretz

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 147-148

Treating phimosis

Paddy A Dewan

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 148-150

Refusal of parents to vaccinate: dereliction of duty or legitimate personal choice?

Peter B McIntyre, Alison H Williams and Julie E Leask

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 150-151

Conference report

Change: imposed and desired in health-professional education

Balakrishnan R Nair and Ian Hardie

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 152-153

Research

Circumcision for phimosis and other medical indications in Western Australian boys

Katrina Spilsbury, James B Semmens, C D'Arcy J Holman and Z Stan Wisniewski

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 155-158 Free

Iodine deficiency and goitre in schoolchildren in Melbourne, 2001

Ciara M McDonnell, Mark Harris and Margaret R Zacharin

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 159-162 Free

Medical education

Preparedness for hospital practice among graduates of a problem-based, graduate-entry medical program

Sarah J Dean, Alexandra L Barratt, Graham D Hendry and Patricia M A Lyon

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 163-166 Free

Medical students and clinical ethics

Sidney Bloch

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 167-169

A week at the morgue: a personal odyssey

Tina Kastowsky

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 170

For debate

"Death talk": debating euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Australia

Margaret A Somerville

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 171-174

Clinical ethics

Childhood tetanus in Australia: ethical issues for a should-be-forgotten preventable disease

Paul N Goldwater, Richard G Power, Paul H Henning, Terence G Donald, Jon N Jureidini, Christine F Finlay, Annette J Braunack-Mayer and Mike S Gold

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 175-177 Free

Viewpoint

Medical history and medical practice: persistent myths about the foreskin

Robert J L Darby

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 178-179

EBM: Trials on trial

Does a combined program of dietary modification and physical activity or the use of metformin reduce the conversion from impaired glucose tolerance to type 2 diabetes?

Dorothy EM Mackerras

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 180-181

Statistical methods in clinical trials

Val J Gebski and Anthony C Keech

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 182-184

Letters

National ethics committee urgently needed

David C Whiteman, Penelope M Webb, David M Purdie and Adèle C Green

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 187

Inappropriate use of hospital emergency departments

Michael K Marks, Daniel Steinfort and Peter LJ Barnett

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 187-188

In reply: Epidemiological modelling (including economic modelling) and its role in preventive drug therapy

Danny Liew, John J McNeil, Anna Peeters, Stephen S Lim and Theo Vos

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 188-189

Screening mammography and mortality

Peter C Gøtzsche

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 189-190

In reply: Screening mammography and mortality

Alan Rodger

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 190

Screening mammography and mortality

Pam Peters

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 190

The Australian Health Care Agreements 2003–2008: reform or false dawn?

William Coote

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 190-191

Pertussis: adults as a source in healthcare settings

R John Massie, Sultan Altunaji, Renata Kukurozovic and Nigel Curtis

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 191

In reply: Pertussis: adults as a source in healthcare settings

Joseph G McCormack, Natalie M Spearing and Robert L Horvath

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 191

Boundaries of medicine

Grant M Russell

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 191-192

In reply: Boundaries of medicine

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 192

Snapshot

A bitter pill to swallow

Peter A Monksfield, Olivia JH Whiteside, Stuart CA Winter, Nicholas B Steventon and Graham J Cox

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (4): 189 Free

Book reviews

Catalogue of child abuse

Graham V Vimpani

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Australian guide to elder care

George Szonyi

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Columns

eMJA: In other journals - 17 February 2003

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