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Volume 183 Issue 11

5 December 2005

Editorials

What is a doctor, and what does a doctor do?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 560-561

Arsenic in drinking water: a natural killer in Bangladesh and beyond

Jack C Ng and Michael R Moore

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 562-563

Crisis

“Mystery illness” at Melbourne Airport: toxic poisoning or mass hysteria?

Robert E Bartholomew

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 564-566 Free

Is the Australian hospital system adequately prepared for terrorism?

Jeffrey V Rosenfeld, Mark Fitzgerald, Thomas Kossmann, Gim Tan, Michele Gardner, Andrew Pearce, Anthony Joseph and Shmuel Shapira

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 567-570 Free

Is the Australian hospital system adequately prepared for terrorism? The Australian Government’s response

Mary Murnane and David M Cooper

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 572-573

Complementary medicine

Complementary and alternative medicine in 2006: optimising the dose of the intervention

Jonathan Berman and Margaret A Chesney

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 574-575

Public illness: how the community recommended complementary and alternative medicine for a prominent politician with cancer

Ray M Lowenthal

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 576-579 Free

Propagation of the Absurd: demarcation of the Absurd revisited

Wallace Sampson and Kimball Atwood IV

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 580-581

Power of one

A scientific odyssey: unravelling the secrets of the thymus

Jacques FA Miller

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 582-584

Challenges, conflict and change

David G Penington

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 585-589

Medical education

“Futuristic medical education”

Louise Young and David Wilkinson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 590-591

Hospital grand rounds in Australia

Richard Tarala and Alistair W Vickery

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 592-594 Free

Imperatives in medical education and training in response to demands for a sustainable workforce

S Bruce Dowton

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 595-598 Free

Nurturing personal and professional conscience in an age of corporate globalisation: Bill Viola’s The Passions

Thomas A Faunce

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 599-601

Hippocrates came across our desks

David J Tiller, Rick McLean and Bruce C Harris

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 602

Academic absenteeism

Peter M Brooks

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 602

Research enterprise

Australian researchers’ views on current research funding

Warwick P Anderson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 604-605 Free

Contemporary (post-Wills) survey of the views of Australian medical researchers: importance of funding, infrastructure and motivators for a research career

Louise G Shewan, Andrew J S Coats, Jane A Glatz and Christine C Bennett

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 606-611 Free

The 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Martin B Van Der Weyden, Ruth M Armstrong and Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 612-614 Free

Medicine and Society

Religious perspectives on withdrawal of treatment from patients with multiple organ failure

Rachel A Ankeny, Christopher F C Jordens, Ian H Kerridge, Ross Clifford and Rod Benson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 616-621 Free

Never say die?

Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 622-624

Let us be prepared

Bebe Loff

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 625-626

Communication and doctors

Professional discretion, courtesy and plain good manners: an anecdotal and personal view

Jane L Nuttall

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 627-628

Communication and courtesy between medical professionals

Max Kamien

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 629

The perils of the "remote" radiologist

Lizbeth M Kenny and Fiona Pacey

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 630

Bites and stings

Prospective study of Chironex fleckeri and other box jellyfish stings in the “Top End” of Australia’s Northern Territory

Bart J Currie and Susan P Jacups

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 631-636 Free

Quotable quotes

Metaphorically speaking

Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 637

History

Mawson and Mertz: a re-evaluation of their ill-fated mapping journey during the 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition

Denise Carrington-Smith

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 638-641 Free

Royal Newcastle Hospital: the passing of an icon

John M Duggan and Peter I A Hendry

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 642-645 Free

The profession

The medical colleges in Australia: besieged but bearing up

Kerrie A Lawson, Ann T Gregory and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 646-651

Eleanor Dark's Slow dawning: a woman in rural practice in the 1920s

Bill Coote

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 652-653

Who’s killing the autopsy? A new tool for assessing the causes of falling autopsy rates

Roger W Byard

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 654-655

True stories

Doggonit, it’s Christmas

Mervyn D Cobcroft and Charles Pembroke-Corgi

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 656-658

“The more I give, the more I receive”

David Wilkinson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 659-661

Medicine and the media

Can medical journals lead or must they follow?

Richard Smith

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 665-668

Christmas offerings

Ailing allegories and sickly stories: the quest for pathology in children’s literature

Brown J McCallum and Stuart M Smith

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 670-671

Effect of ambulance diversion on patient mortality: how access block can save your life

Daniel M Fatovich

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 672-673

Good tidings of great joy via email

Balakrishnan R Nair

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 674

Weather patients will come?

Daniel K B Ou, The-Phung To and David McD Taylor

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 675-677 Free

The impact of ophthalmic surgery on the public image of psychiatry

Garry J Walter

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 678

Book reviews

No-nonsense unmentionables

Simon C Cowap

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Working round the world

David Wilkinson

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The ups and downs of men's sexual health

Denis J Cherry

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Herbal medicine safety

Alan Bensoussan

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Fetal fortune-telling

David A Ellwood

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Letters

“Bucket seat bursitis”

Allen E Gale

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 594

The risks of a “Commonwealth Solution” for mental health

Joseph M Rey

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 624

Where there’s smoke, there’s Mucomyst?

Jim Siderov

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 655

Snapshot

A marriage of inconvenience

David James, D Ong Hii and Nathan Lawrentschuk

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 626 Free

“Boomerang sign” in the splenium of the corpus callosum

Jeyaraj Durai Pandian and Robert D Henderson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 628 Free

A J-shaped mass in the abdomen

Guneesh Dadayal, Dipesh D Duttaroy and Sashidhar Yeluri

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 673 Free

Finding inner peace

Richard H Riley and Richard Sallie

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 677 Free

“Lesionnaire’s syndrome”

Dennis Velakoulis, Christos Pantelis and Mark Walterfang

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 679 Free

Bone of my bone

Anthony R Herbert

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 679 Free

MJA Christmas competition

We have liftoff!

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 680