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Volume 180 Issue 7

5 April 2004

From the editor’s desk

How to live as doctors

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 314 Free

Editorials

Preventing pressure ulcers

Michael C Stacey

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 316

Smoking cessation and elective surgery: the cleanest cut

Matthew J Peters, Lucy C Morgan and Laurence Gluch

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 317-318

The viability of general practice in rural Australia

Max Kamien

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 318-319

Conference report

Football Australasia: controversies in 2003

Hugh G Seward, John W Orchard and Andrew D Jowett

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 321-322

Research

Preventing pressure ulcers with the Australian Medical Sheepskin: an open-label randomised controlled trial

Damien J Jolley, Robyn Wright, Sunita McGowan, Mark B Hickey, Kenneth C Montgomery, Don A Campbell and Rodney D Sinclair

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 324-327 Free

An audit of obstetricians’ management of women potentially infected with blood-borne viruses

Michelle L Giles, Suzanne M Garland, Joseph J Sasadeusz, Sonia R Grover and Margaret E Hellard

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 328-332 Free

Healthcare

Paediatric telephone triage and advice: the demand continues

Ralph M Hanson, Bronwyn J Exley, Paul Ngo, Maureen P Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth L Petering, Sara J Matthews, Diana Lechner and Celeste J Daniels

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 333-335 Free

For debate

Youth health research ethics: time for a mature-minor clause?

Lena A Sanci, Susan M Sawyer, Penny J Weller, Lyndal M Bond and George C Patton

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 336-338 Free

Medicine and the law

Is there a link between work-related stress and colorectal cancer?

Allan D Spigelman and Peter Dwyer

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 339-340

Stress, colon cancer and workers’ compensation

Paul Nisselle

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 341-342

Viewpoint

Time for a new approach to medical workforce planning

Catherine M Joyce, John J McNeil and Johannes U Stoelwinder

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 343-346 Free

Lessons from practice

Biphasic stridor in infancy

Sami Spencer, Belinda H Yeoh, Peter P Van Asperen and Dominic A Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 347-349 Free

MJA Practice Essentials — Endocrinology

8: Disorders of bone and mineral other than osteoporosis

Richard L Prince and Paul Glendenning

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 354-359 Free

Matters arising

The “Cam affair”: an isolated incident or destined to be repeated?

Brad Frankum, Duane Attree, Andrew Gatenby, Sandy Eagar and Anthony Aouad

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 362-366

Letters

Severe Streptococcus zooepidemicus infection in a gardener

Andie S Lee and John R Dyer

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 366

Thalidomide-induced bradycardia and its management

John Coutsouvelis and Carmela E Corallo

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 366-367

Recent advances in therapy of diabetes

John B Dixon

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 368

Obituaries

Cyril Joseph Cummins MB BS, DipPH, FACMA

Kimberley Moore

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 350 Free

Pierre (“Peter”) Joseph Victor Beumont AM, MB ChB, MSc, MPhil, FRCP, FRCPsych, FRACP, FRANZCP, DPM

Stephen W Touyz

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 350 Free

Ross Wharton Webster MB BS, FRACP, FRACGP, FAFPHM, FAMA

Paul Nisselle

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (7): 351 Free

Book reviews

Sensitive communication with kids

Emma Hartwell

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Managing musculoskeletal pain

C Scott Masters

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Addressing human elements

Chris Mileshkin

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Health through behaviour change

James F P Black

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Answers for headache

James W Lance

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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