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Volume 179 Issue 6

15 September 2003

From the editor’s desk

The promise of immortality

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 273 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): Free

Editorials

New medical standards for commercial and private vehicle drivers

Bruce Hocking and Fiona Landgren

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 276-277

Medical records and population health

Rosemary F Roberts and Ralph M Hanson

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 277-278

Obstacles to research in complementary and alternative medicine

Edzard Ernst

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 279-280

Australian healthcare reform: in need of political courage and champions

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 280-281

Research

A prospective before-and-after trial of a medical emergency team

Rinaldo Bellomo, Donna Goldsmith, Shigehiko Uchino, Jonathan Buckmaster, Graeme K Hart, Helen Opdam, William Silvester, Laurie Doolan and Geoffrey Gutteridge

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 283-287 Free

Factors influencing survival after stroke in Western Australia

Andy H Lee, Peter J Somerford and Kelvin K W Yau

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 289-293 Free

Is grand multiparity an independent predictor of pregnancy risk? A retrospective observational study

Michael D Humphrey

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 294-296 Free

The profile of women who consult alternative health practitioners in Australia

Jon Adams, David W Sibbritt, Gary Easthope and Anne F Young

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 297-300 Free

The profession

Doctors’ health-seeking behaviour: a questionnaire survey

Sandra K Davidson and Peter L Schattner

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 302-305 Free

Snapshot

Gallstone ileus diagnosed by computed tomography

Hashim Hashim, Alec Engledow and Steve Warren

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 305 Free

Clinical update

Lowering blood pressure in 2003

John P Chalmers and Leonard F Arnolda

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 306-312 Free

Viewpoint

The medical emergency team, evidence-based medicine and ethics

Ross K Kerridge and W Peter Saul

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 313-315

For debate

The regulation of complementary health: sacrificing integrity?

Malcolm H Parker

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 316-318 Free

Medicine and the community

A child in detention: dilemmas faced by health professionals

Karen J Zwi, Brenda Herzberg, David Dossetor and Jyotsna Field

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 319-322

Letters

Long-term outcomes of middle-ear surgery in Aboriginal children

Donna B Mak, Alastair MacKendrick, Max K Bulsara, Sharon Weeks, Lewis Leidwinger, Harvey Coates, Francis J Lannigan and Deborah Lehmann

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 324-325 Free

Detecting people at higher risk for colorectal neoplasia in a community-based screening program

Rosie G Scott, John T Edwards, Richard M Mendelson and Geoffrey M Forbes

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 325

Socioeconomic disadvantage and use of general practitioners in rural and remote Australia

Gavin Turrell, Brian F Oldenburg, Elizabeth Harris, Damien J Jolley and Merel L Kimman

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 325-326

The association between licit and illicit drug use and sexuality in young Australian women

Lynne Hillier, Richard De Visser, Anne M Kavanagh and Ruth P McNair

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 326-327

New driving guidelines: ethical and legal uncertainties

Andrew B Black and Sam F Berkovic

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 327-328

Recommended therapeutic digoxin blood levels: a cause for concern

Keith V Woollard

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 328

Obituary

Francis Gerald Tighe BAgrSc MB BS DipObstRCOG FRACGP

Richard C Shiell

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): 312 Free

Book reviews

A practical philosophy for doctors?

Sidney Bloch

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Mental health at work

Bruce Hocking

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Columns

In Other Journals

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Supplement

Palliative care: a new dimension in healthcare

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): Open Access