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Volume 183 Issue 5

5 September 2005

From the editor’s desk

The Tree of Hippocrates

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

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Editorials

Hospital in the home: what next?

Andrew D Wilson and Stuart G Parker

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 228-229

Resolving conflict in end-of-life care

Michael A Ashby, Allan Kellehear and Brian F Stoffell

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 230-231

Setting goals for health in a time of prosperity

Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 232-233

Research

Home management of mild to moderately severe community-acquired pneumonia: a randomised controlled trial

Dee A Richards, Les J Toop, Michael J Epton, G Ian Town, Robin D Dawson, Michael C Hlavac, Graham R B McGeoch, Simon M H Wynn-Thomas, Paul D Abernethy and Anja M Werno

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 235-238 Free

Management of pulmonary embolism in the home

Bin S Ong, Margaret A Karr, Daniel K Y Chan, Anthony Frankel and Qing Shen

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 239-242 Free

The rising incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes in New South Wales, 1990–2002

Craig E Taplin, Maria E Craig, Margaret Lloyd, Martin Silink, Neville J Howard, Claire Taylor and Patricia Crock

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 243-246 Free

Medicine and the media

Impact of news of celebrity illness on breast cancer screening: Kylie Minogue's breast cancer diagnosis

Simon Chapman, Simon Holding, Kim McLeod and Melanie Wakefield

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 247-250 Free

Medicine and the community

Use of prescribed medications in a South Australian community sample

Robert D Goldney and Laura J Fisher

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 251-253 Free

For debate

A Ministry for the Public's Health: an imperative for disease prevention in the 21st century?

Stephen J Corbett

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 254-257 Free

Medical education

Problem-based learning: a dissemination success story?

Robert W Sanson-Fisher and Marita C Lynagh

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 258-260 Free

Medicine and the law

The Messiha and Schiavo cases: third-party ethical and legal interventions in futile care disputes

Thomas A Faunce and Cameron Stewart

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 261-263 Free

Viewpoint

Evidence in palliative care research: how should it be gathered?

Samar M Aoun and Linda J Kristjanson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 264-266

Teaching on the run

Teaching on the run tips 10: giving feedback

Alistair W Vickery and Fiona R Lake

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 267-268

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay: the second of three finalists' essays

Affirmative action and equity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

Yin C Paradies

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 269-270 Free

Letters

Depressed youth, suicidality and antidepressants

Robert D Goldney

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 275-276

Depressed youth, suicidality and antidepressants

Peter R Mansfield, Melissa K Raven and Jon N Jureidini

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Depressed youth, suicidality and antidepressants

Joseph M Rey and Michael J Dudley

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 275-276

Depressed youth, suicidality and antidepressants

Duncan Topliss

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 275-276

The crisis in mental health: the chariot needs one horseman

Gordon R W Davies

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 277

Severe peanut allergy in Australian children

Andrew S Kemp

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 277

Universal varicella vaccination

Grant A Mackenzie

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 277-279

Universal varicella vaccination

Kristine Macartney and Peter McIntyre

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 277-279

Potential pitfalls in the diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma

Adam P Morton

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 279

Potential pitfalls in the diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma

Stan B Sidhu

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 279

Postgraduate medical education: rethinking and integrating a complex landscape

Raymond W Cook

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 280

Corrections

Correction: Achieving equal standards in medical student education: is a national exit examination the answer?

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 280

Correction: Reliability of parental reports of head lice in their children

Megan L Counahan, Ross M Andrews and Rick Speare

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Book reviews

Dealing with pressure

Roger Peverill

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An introduction to medical ethics

Wendy A Rogers

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Doctors in Western literature

Marcia D Childress

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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