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Volume 182 Issue 1

3 January 2005

From the editor’s desk

Feuding professionals

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

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Medical humanities

Is medicine a “cultural good”?

H Martyn Evans

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 3-4

Medical humanities: to cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always

Jill Gordon

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 5-8 Free

Narrative and illness: the death of a doctor’s friend

Anne P Hellman

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 9-11

Editorials

Safety of emergency medical service helicopters

Alan A Garner, Jeff Konemann and Deanne M Keetelaar

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 12-13

Rural inequalities in cancer care and outcome

Katharine E Jong, Paula J Vale and Bruce K Armstrong

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 13-14

Conference report

Immunisation at the crossroads: 9th National Immunisation/1st Asia–Pacific Vaccine Preventable Diseases Conference

Peter B McIntyre, Heath A Kelly and E Kim Mulholland

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 15-16

Research

Safety of helicopter aeromedical transport in Australia: a retrospective study

Jim Holland and David G Cooksley

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 17-19 Free

The effect of a reduction in heroin supply on fatal and non-fatal drug overdoses in New South Wales, Australia

Louisa J Degenhardt, Elizabeth Conroy, Stuart Gilmour and Wayne D Hall

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 20-23 Free

Randomised trial of intranasal versus intramuscular naloxone in prehospital treatment for suspected opioid overdose

Anne-Maree Kelly, Debra Kerr, Zeff Koutsogiannis, Paul Dietze, Ian Patrick and Tony Walker

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 24-27 Free

Clinical update

Optimising the management of allergic rhinitis: an Australian perspective

Ronald S Walls, Robert J Heddle, Mimi L K Tang, Ben J Basger, Graham O Solley and Guan T Yeo

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 28-33 Free

For debate

From “silos” to seamless healthcare: bringing hospitals and GPs back together again

Linda Mann

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 34-37

Notable cases

Hepatitis C-associated cryoglobulinaemia presenting with refractory hypertensive crisis and acute pulmonary oedema

Li-Na Lee, Shyh-Chyi Lo, Fu-Chi Lin, Hon-Ping Lau, Jih-Shuin Jerng and Pan-Chyr Yang

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 38-40 Free

Correction

Correction: Warfarin reversal: consensus guidelines, on behalf of the Australasian Society of Haemostasis and Thrombosis

Ross I Baker, Paul B Coughlin, Hatem H Salem, Alex S Gallus, Paul L Harper and Erica M Wood

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 48

Correction: The hidden tragedy of offender deaths

Stuart Ross

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 48

Correction: Postnatal evaluation of vitamin D and bone health in women who were vitamin D-deficient in pregnancy, and in their infants

Katherine Thomson, Margaret R Zacharin, Ruth Morley and Sonia R Grover

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 48

Obituary

Llewellyn Daniel WheelerMB BS, MS, FRACS, BDiv

John L Allsop

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 34 Free

Letters

Varicella seroprevalence and vaccine uptake in preschool children

Gwendolyn L Gilbert, Heather F Gidding, Josephine Backhouse and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 42

Tramadol and new-onset seizures

Angelo Labate, Mark R Newton, Graeme M Vernon and Samuel F Berkovic

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 42-43

Audit of prescribed nicotine replacement therapy to hospital inpatients who smoke

Barbara A Hawkshaw and Yeqin Zuo

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 43-44

Smoking cessation and elective surgery: the cleanest cut

Desmond O’Brien

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 44

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in acute ischaemic stroke: time for collegiate communication and consensus

Daniel M Fatovich

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 44-45

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in acute ischaemic stroke: time for collegiate communication and consensus

Ian R Rogers, George A Jelinek and Ian Jacobs

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 44-45

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in acute ischaemic stroke: time for collegiate communication and consensus

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 44-45

Web and telecounselling in Australia

Ron Borland and Catherine J Segan

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 45-46

Web and telecounselling in Australia

Helen Christensen, Barbara Hocking and Dawn Smith

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 45-46

Are current playground safety standards adequate for preventing arm fractures?

Ailsa Goulding, Andrea M Grant and Peter L Davidson

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 46-47

Are current playground safety standards adequate for preventing arm fractures?

Shauna Sherker and Joan Ozanne-Smith

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 46-47

Subsidised access to TNF-α inhibitors: is the rationale for exclusion of rheumatoid-factor-negative patients defensible?

Erica L Mann

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 47-48

Book review

Mapping our healthcare system

Johannes U Stoelwinder

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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