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Volume 189 Issue 11

8 December 2008

Journal activities

MJA 2008: home sweet home

Bronwyn Gaut

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 604-606

Editorial

Doctor displacement: a political agenda or a health care imperative?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 608-609

Conference report

Australian Medical Students’ Association: what medical students are contributing to health care

Carly M Fox and Michael A Bonning

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 610-611

Doctors and patients

Perceived difficulties in consulting with patients and families: a survey of Australian cancer specialists

Aneta Dimoska, Afaf Girgis, Vibeke Hansen, Phyllis N Butow and Martin H N Tattersall

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 612-615 Free

An improvement focus in public reporting: the Queensland approach

Stephen J Duckett, Justin Collins, Maarten Kamp and Kew Walker

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 616-617 Free

Qualities men value when communicating with general practitioners: implications for primary care settings

James A Smith, Annette J Braunack-Mayer, Gary A Wittert and Megan J Warin

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 618-621 Free

Worm’s eye view

Richard A Joske

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 621

The profession

Knowing — or not knowing — when to stop: cognitive decline in ageing doctors

Robert G Adler and Conn Constantinou

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 622-624 Free

Dealing with “rogue” medical students: we need a nationally consistent approach based on “case law”

Malcolm H Parker and David Wilkinson

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 626-628 Free

Radiologists’ lament

Turab Chakera and Makhan S Khangure

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 628

Brit abroad: thoughts of a British resident working in Sydney

Sarah C Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 629

The Whole Wide World

World Youth Day 2008: did it stress Sydney hospitals?

Myles W H Smith, Gordian W O Fulde and Patricia M Hendry

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 630-632 Free

Blessings in disguise: public health emergency preparedness for World Youth Day 2008

Jan Fizzell and Paul K Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 633-636 Free

South Africa: a 21st century apartheid in health and health care?

Gavin H Mooney and Diane E McIntyre

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 637-640 Free

Health and human security in West Papua

Susan J Rees, Remco van de Pas, Derrick Silove and Moses Kareth

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 641-643 Free

What Australia can learn from the US health care system

Jeffrey D Zajac

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 644

Power of one

In pursuit of patient care, research and health policy: today’s research is tomorrow’s practice and policy

Judith A Whitworth

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 646-649

Research enterprise

On our selection: Australian longitudinal research studies

Ann T Gregory, Ruth M Armstrong, Tanya D Grassi, Bronwyn Gaut and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 650-657 Free

History

de Ketham revisited: a modern-day urine wheel

Charles J Diskin

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 658-659

Q fever. Was Edward Derrick’s contribution undervalued?

Robin A Cooke

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 660-662

True stories

Thirty-year follow-up at pneumonectomy of a 58-year-old survivor of disseminated osteosarcoma

George A Jelinek and Ruth H Gawler

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 663-665

Pigs, burns and curly tails

Geoffrey C Mullins

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 666-667

Transient ischaemic attack caused by an ingested stingray barb

Desmond C C Gan, Ravi L Huilgol and Mark J Westcott

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 668-669

No ticket for a corpse

John S Whitehall

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 670-671

Christmas offerings

A sonnet to a doctor’s epiphany

Suran Fernando

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 628

Foreign body inhalation: a nut in the tree

Stefan Buchholz and George R Rudan

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 636

Baby in the eye?

Neil S Sharma

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 669

Hospitals are dangerous places

Adrian G Barnett, Nicholas Graves, Ben S Cooper, Rahul Batra and Jonathan D Edgeworth

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 672 Free

Blowin’ a blizzard in Brissie

Tim Young, Cheryl Scott and Rebecca McLachlan

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 673

Does degree of baldness influence vitamin D status?

Mark J Bolland, Ruth W Ames, Andrew B Grey, Anne M Horne, Barbara H Mason, Greg D Gamble and Ian R Reid

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 674-675 Free

Flying and medicine: mutual lessons

Balakrishnan R Nair

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 676

Kid stone: a tale of valour and writhing agony

Keiran K Tuck

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 677-678

Pneumoperitoneum: a non-surgical cause

Yu Xuan Kitzing and Sam McCormack

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 678

Occasional assistance needed for general practice

Alison Miller

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 678

The positive power of paintings

Mike Barr

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 679

Letter

Disability: time for real change

Dinah S Reddihough and Bruce P Bonyhady

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 615

Quotable quotes

Let’s cut to the chase: quotes from MJA contributors in 2008

Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 645

Book reviews

Litigant laid bare

Caroline M De Costa

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 640

Medical writings: stories from another time

James A Best

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 657

Christmas competition

MJA Christmas Competition: a tonic for uncertain times

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): 680