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Volume 184 Issue 5

6 March 2006

From the editor’s desk

Save the stethoscope

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

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Editorials

Hospital overcrowding: a threat to patient safety?

Peter A Cameron

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 203-204

New ideas about medical professionalism

Donald H Irvine

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 204-205

How can we best detect hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer?

Judy A Kirk

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 206-207

Research

The association between hospital overcrowding and mortality among patients admitted via Western Australian emergency departments

Peter C Sprivulis, Julie-Ann Da Silva, Ian G Jacobs, George A Jelinek and Amanda R L Frazer

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 208-212 Free

Increase in patient mortality at 10 days associated with emergency department overcrowding

Drew B Richardson

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 213-216 Free

Injury profiles of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in New South Wales

Kathleen F Clapham, Mark R Stevenson and Sing Kai Lo

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 217-220 Free

Clinical islet transplantation in type 1 diabetes mellitus: results of Australia’s first trial

Philip J O’Connell, Wayne J Hawthorne, Brian J Nankivell, Anita T Patel, Stacey N Walters, Henry C C Pleass, Richard D M Allen, Jeremy R Chapman, D Jane Holmes-Walker and Jenny E Gunton

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 221-225 Free

Medicine and the community

Trends in asthma prevalence and population changes in South Australia, 1990–2003

David H Wilson, Robert J Adams, Richard E Ruffin, Graeme Tucker, Anne W Taylor and Sarah Appleton

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Clinical update

The prevention, detection, and management of breast cancer

Nehmat Houssami, Jack Cuzick and J Michael Dixon

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 230-234 Free

Viewpoint

Addicted to the good life: harm reduction in chronic disease management

Bradleigh D Hayhow and Michael Peter Lowe

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 235-237 Free

Teaching on the run

Teaching on the run tips 12: planning for learning during clinical attachments

Fiona R Lake and Gerard Ryan

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 238-239

Lessons from practice

A pox on the heart: five cases of cardiovascular syphilis

Steven Y C Tong, Alan C Street and Haris Haqqani

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 240-242 Free

MJA Practice Essentials — Sports Medicine

6. Doctor on the sidelines

Geoffrey M Verrall, Peter D Brukner and Hugh G Seward

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 244-248 Free

Letters

Cefotetan-induced life-threatening haemolysis

Heather E Robinson, Ellen L Maxwell, H Miles Prince, Mary A O'Reilly and Andrew Jakobovits

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Skin cancer medicine in primary care: towards an agenda for quality health outcomes

Russell Stitz, Michael R Kidd, Liz M Kenny and Anne M Howard

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Changing patterns of tuberculosis in Far North Queensland

Graham Simpson, Paul Clark and Trevor Knight

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What exactly is society getting for its research dollars?

Roslyn G Poulos and Anthony B Zwi

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 252-253

Efficacy of an alcohol/chlorhexidine hand hygiene program in a hospital with high rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection

Keith V Woollard

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 253-254

Efficacy of an alcohol/chlorhexidine hand hygiene program in a hospital with high rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection

R Michael Whitby and Mary-Louise McLaws

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 253-254

Efficacy of an alcohol/chlorhexidine hand hygiene program in a hospital with high rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection

Paul D R Johnson and M Lindsay Grayson

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 253-254

Ethics and access to teaching materials in the medical library: the case of the Pernkopf atlas

C Raina MacIntyre, Catherine L King and David Isaacs

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 254-255

The MP3 surgeon and the opera fan

Richard H Riley

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 255-256

The MP3 surgeon and the opera fan

Charles Teo

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Little Boy Blue

Ivan Cher

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Obituary

Alan Norman Jennings MB BS, DipPsyMed, FRANZCP

Millie Mills

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Corrections

Challenges, conflict and change

David G Penington

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Hospital in the home: what next?

Stephen F Wilson and Nicholas Collins

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Book review

Understanding the placebo effect

Edzard Ernst

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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