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Volume 183 Issue 6

19 September 2005

From the editor’s desk

What have we gained?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

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Editorials

The Bundaberg Hospital scandal: the need for reform in Queensland and beyond

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 284-285

Revisiting the role of radical surgery in early stage prostate cancer

Anthony J Costello, Niall M Corcoran and Scott Van Appledorn

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 286-287

Gestational diabetes mellitus: from consensus to action on screening and treatment

H David McIntyre, N Wah Cheung, Jeremy J N Oats and David Simmons

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 288-289

Research

The use of cusum analysis in the early detection and management of hospital bed occupancy crises

Claire M Burns, Cameron J Bennett, Colin T Myers and Michael Ward

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 291-294 Free

Factors influencing the choice of specialty of Australian medical graduates

Mary G Harris, Paul H Gavel and Jeannette R Young

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 295-300 Free

Immunity to diphtheria and tetanus in Australia: a national serosurvey

Heather F Gidding, Josephine L Backhouse, Gwendolyn L Gilbert and Margaret A Burgess

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 301-304 Free

Indigenous health

Clinical outcomes associated with changes in a chronic disease treatment program in an Australian Aboriginal community

Wendy E Hoy, Srinivas N Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan and Jennifer L Nicol

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 305-309 Free

Clinical update

Obesity, weight loss and bariatric surgery

Paul E O’Brien, Wendy A Brown and John B Dixon

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 310-314 Free

Medicine and the law

Protecting health information privacy in research: how much law do Australians need?

Colin J H Thomson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 315-317 Free

Viewpoint

Legislation in Victoria on sexual offenders: issues for health professionals

Danny H Sullivan, Paul E Mullen and Michele T Pathé

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 318-320 Free

Diagnostic dilemmas

An unexpected cause of macroscopic haematuria

John S Lubel, Louise M Burrell and Vicki Levidiotis

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 321-323

Obituary

Alfred Asher Grauaug MB BS, FRACP

Karen N Simmer and Jeffrey Tompkins

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 323 Free

Lessons from practice

Hypophosphataemia secondary to oral refeeding syndrome in a patient with long-term alcohol misuse

Adrian T Fung and Janet Rimmer

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 324-326 Free

Personal perspective

Reflections on the Bundaberg Hospital failure

Anthony P Morton

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 328-329

Matters arising

Australia’s first religiously affiliated medical school

Michael M Daube, George Larcos, Paul A Komesaroff, Edward D Watt, John E Murtagh, Robert G Batey, Ian H Kerridge, Rachel A X Ankeny, Christopher F C Jordens and Wendy L Lipworth

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 331-333

Letters

Availability of smokeless tobacco products in south Asian grocery shops in Sydney, 2004

Preeti Sachdev and Simon Chapman

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Clinicians prescribing exercise: is air pollution a hazard?

Chris E Rissel

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 334-336

Clinicians prescribing exercise: is air pollution a hazard?

Louis A du Plessis

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 334-336

Clinicians prescribing exercise: is air pollution a hazard?

James E Sharman

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Book review

Nitschke's euthanasia

Kerryn L Phelps

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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