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Volume 196 Issue 6

2 April 2012

Editor's choice

Why is unmanaged pain still a problem?

Annette Katelaris

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 371 Free

Editorials

Waiting in pain

Timothy J Semple and Malcolm N Hogg

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 372-373 Free

Unrelieved pain: a major health care priority

Michael J Cousins

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 373-374 Free

Time for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee to set its own agenda

Wendy L Lipworth, Ian Kerridge and Richard O Day

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 374-375

In brief

From the CSIRO Preventative Health National Research Flagship

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 376

News

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 377

Perspectives

What’s the score in pain assessment?

Carl L von Baeyer

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 379

Opioid prescribing in Australian general practice

Christopher M Harrison, Janice Charles, Joan Henderson and Helena Britt

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 380-381

Racial and ethnic identification and quality of care: an Australian perspective

Margaret Kelaher, Amy Parry, Susan Day, Yin Paradies and Ian Anderson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 382

Letters

Nicotine replacement therapy: evidence from observational studies versus clinical trials

Johnson George

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 383

“Blunderburg” revisited

John A Buntine

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 383-384

No more excuses: fracture liaison services work and are cost-effective

David Spencer, Graydon Howe and Nicholas Manolios

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 384

Exploring melatonin prescribing among customers of compounding pharmacies in Australia

Jane Nikles, Victor Lo, Jennifer A Giam and Bandana Saini

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 384-385

Neurocysticercosis in Australia: still free of autochthonous cases?

Oscar H Del Brutto

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 385

Research

Waiting in pain: a systematic investigation into the provision of persistent pain services in Australia

Malcolm N Hogg, Stephen Gibson, Amal Helou, Jacklyn DeGabriele and Michael J Farrell

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 386-390 Free

Waiting room ambience and provision of opioid substitution therapy in general practice

Simon M Holliday, Parker J Magin, Janet S Dunbabin, Ben D Ewald, Julie-Marie Henry, Susan M Goode, Fran A Baker and Adrian J Dunlop

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 391-394 Free

Prostate-specific antigen levels in men aged 70 years and over: findings from the CHAMP study

Melisa J Litchfield, Robert G Cumming, David P Smith, Vasi Naganathan, David G Le Couteur, Louise M Waite, Fiona M Blyth and David J Handelsman

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 395-398 Free

A systematic approach to workplace-based assessment for international medical graduates

Balakrishnan R Nair, Michael J Hensley, Mulavana S Parvathy, Deborah M Lloyd, Brooke Murphy, Kathy Ingham, Julie M Wein and Ian M Symonds

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 399-402 Free

Ethics and law

Autonomy versus futility? Barriers to good clinical practice in end-of-life care: a Queensland case

Sean Lawrence, Lindy Willmott, Eleanor Milligan, Sarah Winch, Ben White and Malcolm Parker

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 404-405 Free

A defence of the requirement to seek consent to withhold and withdraw futile treatments

Cameron L Stewart

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 406-408 Free

Medical education

The requirement for bioscience knowledge in medical education

Geoffrey J McColl, Justin Bilszta and Stephen Harrap

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 409 Free

Reflections

First-person neuroscience and the understanding of pain

Michael A Thacker and G Lorimer Moseley

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 410-411

Splendid isolation: the winners of our creative writing competition

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 412

Hands off the breech

Susan E Fox

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 412-413

In my darkness

Paulina Wojciechowska

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 413-414

Jeremy Martin Bunker

Elizabeth K Marles

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 415 Free

RA at a glance

Phillip C Vecchio

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 415

Careers

Outsmarting pain

Amanda Bryan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): C1 Free

A literary prescription

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): C8 Free

Dr Luke Murtagh

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): C2 Free

Associate Professor Roger Goucke reflects on his career in pain medicine

Amanda Bryan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): C5 Free

Workplace safety goes national

Kath Ryan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): C6 Free