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Volume 187 Issue 4

20 August 2007

From the editor’s desk

The health care happiness factor

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 201 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 202 Free

Editorials

Interventions to halt child abuse in Aboriginal communities

Ian T Ring and Mark Wenitong

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 204-205 Free

The National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Bill 2007: reform or fracture?

Ken J Harvey, Anthony H Harris and Liliana Bulfone

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 206-207

Skin cancer: changing paradigms of practice and medical education

Christopher A Commens

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 207-208

Research

Skin cancer surgery in Australia 2001–2005: the changing role of the general practitioner

Deborah A Askew, David Wilkinson, Philip J Schluter and Kerena Eckert

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 210-214 Free

Diagnosing skin cancer in primary care: how do mainstream general practitioners compare with primary care skin cancer clinic doctors?

Philippa H Youl, Peter D Baade, Monika Janda, Christopher B Del Mar, David C Whiteman and Joanne F Aitken

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 215-220 Free

Asthma among school children in the Barwon region of Victoria

Peter J Vuillermin, Mike South, John B Carlin, Maree I Biscan, Sharon L Brennan and Colin F Robertson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 221-224 Free

Review

Issues for clinicians training international medical graduates: a systematic review

Louis S Pilotto, Geraldine F Duncan and Jane Anderson-Wurf

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 225-228 Free

Obituary

John Charles Proctor Cone MBBS, MD, FRANZCP

Edwin Harari

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 228 Free

Clinical update

Preventing suicide after traumatic brain injury: implications for general practice

Grahame K Simpson and Robyn L Tate

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 229-232 Free

Medicine and the law

Loss of chance: a new development in medical negligence law

James Tibballs

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 233-235 Free

For debate

Reference pricing, generic drugs and proposed changes to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

Andrew Searles, Susannah Jefferys, Evan Doran and David A Henry

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 236-239 Free

Viewpoint

Reference pricing for pharmaceuticals: is the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement affecting Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme?

Thomas A Faunce

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 240-242

Notable cases

Three cases of endometrial cancer associated with “bioidentical” hormone replacement therapy

John A Eden, Neville F Hacker and Michael Fortune

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 244-245 Free

Snapshot

A giant splenic artery aneurysm

Chih-Chen Lai, Liang-Wen Ding and Tung-Wei Chu

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 245 Free

Correction

Use of thoracic computed tomography by general practitioners

Graham Simpson and Garry S Hartrick

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 256

Letters

Airline security and diabetes

George Skowronski

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 249

Colonoscopy capacity in selected New South Wales hospitals

Shelanah A Fernando, Anne E Duggan, Owen F Dent and Maeve C Eikli

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 249-250

Comparing survival outcomes for patients with colorectal cancer treated in public and private hospitals

Niall C Tebbutt

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 250-251

Comparing survival outcomes for patients with colorectal cancer treated in public and private hospitals

Suzanne Kosmider, Ian T Jones, Ian P Hayes and Peter Gibbs

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 250-251

Comparing survival outcomes for patients with colorectal cancer treated in public and private hospitals

Cameron Platell, Melinda Morris and Barry Iacopetta

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 250-251

Use of dermoscopy in Australia

Alex J Chamberlain and John W Kelly

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 252-253

Potential link between HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor (statin) use and interstitial lung disease

Beatrice A Golomb and Marcella A Evans

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 253-253

The effects of oxygen therapy in patients presenting to an emergency department with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Andrew W Dent, George A Jelinek, Sandra L Neate, Tracey J Weiland and Ann-Maree Kelly

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 253-254

The effects of oxygen therapy in patients presenting to an emergency department with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Simon A Joosten, David Smallwood, Mariko S Koh, Louis B Irving and Xiaoning Bu

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 253-254

Attitudes towards cosmetic surgery among university students

David J Castle and Riteesh Bookun

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 254

Entry tests for graduate medical programs: is it time to re-think?

Malcolm H Parker, David Wilkinson, Ray G Peterson, Ieva Z Ozolins, Haida Luke, Jenny Zhang and Gerard J A Byrne

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 255

Entry tests for graduate medical programs: is it time to re-think?

Michele A Groves, Jill Gordon and Greg Ryan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 255

Words, words, words

Warwick H Ruse

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 255-256

Words, words, words

Nicholas R Wilcken, Val J Gebski, Anthony C Keech and Rhana Pike

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 255-256

Book reviews

Health care professionals’ guide to religions

Rachel A Ankeny

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 246

Pepping up tired patients

Vicki Kotsirilos

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 246

Found poetry

John R Skelton

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 247

Indigenous health: reaching beyond rhetoric

Charles Guest

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 247 Free

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 248