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Volume 201 Issue 9

3 November 2014

Highlights from our 1930 archives

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In this issue

Playing it safe

Christine Gee

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Editorials

Diabetes prevention and care: we know what to do, so why aren't we doing it?

Stephen Colagiuri

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Inequalities of access to bariatric surgery in Australia

Michael Edye and Michael L Talbot

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In brief

From NPS MedicineWise

A real-world, data-driven view of general practice prescribing

Lynn M Weekes

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News

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Perspectives

Reducing dietary salt intake and preventing iodine deficiency: towards a common public health agenda

Jacqui Webster, Mary-Anne Land, Anthea Christoforou, Creswell J Eastman, Michael Zimmerman, Norman R C Campbell and Bruce C Neal

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Peers or pariahs? The quest for fairer conditions for international medical graduates in Australia

Carlos Zubaran and Susan Douglas

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Lessons learned in developing new postgraduate medical specialist training programs for Australia and New Zealand

Kevin D Forsyth

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Letters

Shared decision making: what do clinicians need to know and why should they bother?

Debora Picone

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Shared decision making: what do clinicians need to know and why should they bother?

Michele Levinson

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Shared decision making: what do clinicians need to know and why should they bother?

Tammy C Hoffmann and Christopher B Del Mar

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Self-regulation of autologous cell therapies

Graham Vesey

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Self-regulation of autologous cell therapies

Bernard E Tuch and Dominic Wall

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The NSW Safe Sedation Project

Joanna R Sutherland, Ellen Rawstron and Christopher Ball

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Do death certificates accurately record deaths due to bloodstream infection?

Christopher S Heather, Hong Foo and Iain B Gosbell

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Clinical focus

Patient safety

Rapid response systems

Kenneth M Hillman, Jack Chen and Daryl Jones

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Research

Colorectal cancer screening and subsequent incidence of colorectal cancer: results from the 45 and Up Study

Annika Steffen, Marianne F Weber, David M Roder and Emily Banks

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Incidents resulting from staff leaving normal duties to attend medical emergency team calls

The Concord Medical Emergency Team (MET) Incidents Study Investigators

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Surfboard-related eye injuries in New South Wales: a 1-year prospective study

Juliette Howden, Jenny Danks, Peter McCluskey, Mark Gillett and Raf Ghabrial

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Workplace aggression in clinical medical practice: associations with job satisfaction, life satisfaction and self-rated health

Danny Hills and Catherine M Joyce

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Case reports

Lessons from practice

Lithium-induced thyrotoxicosis in a patient with treatment-resistant bipolar type I affective disorder

Santhi Chalasani and Katherine A Benson

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Lessons from practice

Lung transplant recipients receiving voriconazole and skin squamous cell carcinoma risk in Australia

Chin Fen Neoh, Gregory I Snell, Bronwyn Levvey, Tom Kotsimbos, Orla Morrissey, Monica A Slavin, Kay Stewart and David C M Kong

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Snapshot

Pseudoxanthoma elasticum

Zhenying Zhang and Xiaoming Liu

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Ethics and law

Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in a patient's best interests: Australian judicial deliberations

Lindy Willmott, Ben White, Malcolm K Smith and Dominic J C Wilkinson

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Reflections

Best of Best

Tossing a Snowball at the tip of the iceberg

John B Best

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A simple, novel and accurate method to estimate track record: a new “P” value

Paul M Pilowsky

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A personal reflection on staff experiences after critical incidents

Cameron I Knott

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Obituary

Anthony J McMichael AO, MB BS, PhD

Cate Swannell

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Book reviews

Creating agency in Aboriginal health

Dameyon Bonson

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Book reviews

Guns, bombs and stethoscopes

Brendan J Nelson

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Careers

Full and joyous life

Cate Swannell

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RACGP honours the best and brightest

Cate Swannell

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Calendar of events

Cate Swannell

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