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Volume 203 Issue 6

21 September 2015

Editorials

Paramedics and scope of practice

Gerard J FitzGerald

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News

From the NHMRC

Special collection on Indigenous health

Davina Ghersi and Samantha Faulkner

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 242 Free

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 243 Free

Perspectives

Financing options to sustain Medicare: are we committed to universalism?

Tracey-Lea Laba, Beverley M Essue and Stephen Jan

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 244-245 Free

Geographic inequity in healthy food environment and type 2 diabetes: can we please turn off the tap?

Thomas Astell-Burt and Xiaoqi Feng

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 246-248 Free

Short reports

The Murray to the Mountains Intern Training Program

John B Best, Jacque Phillips, Terry Welch, Shane Boyer, Craig DeLacy and Geoffrey J McColl

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 249

Pattern of malignant mesothelioma incidence and occupational exposure to asbestos in Western Australia

Arthur W (Bill) Musk, Nola Olsen, Helman Alfonso, Susan Peters and Peter Franklin

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 251-252

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss secondary to metronidazole ototoxicity

Anthony Rotman, Philip Michael, Michael Tykocinski and Stephen J O’Leary

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 253

The AMA Specialist Trainee Survey 2014: a survey of hospital-based specialty trainees and general practice registrars

Julian Grabek, James A Churchill and Sally Banfield

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 254-255

For debate

How changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule could improve the practice of cardiology and save taxpayer money

Richard W Harper, Arthur Nasis and Vijaya Sundararajan

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 256-258 Free

Research

Lost productive life years caused by chronic conditions in Australians aged 45–64 years, 2010–2030

Deborah J Schofield, Rupendra N Shrestha, Michelle Cunich, Robert Tanton, Simon Kelly, Megan E Passey and Lennert J Veerman

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 260 Free

The Cardiac Genetics Clinic: a model for multidisciplinary genomic medicine

Dominica Zentner, Tina N Thompson, Paul A James, Alison Trainer, Lesley C Adès, Ivan Macciocca, Jessica A Taylor, Kirsty Mann, Michael Bogwitz, Nigel Lewis, Natalie Morgan, Jitendra Vohra and Ingrid Winship

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 261 Free

Success in Closing the Gap: favourable neonatal outcomes in a metropolitan Aboriginal Maternity Group Practice Program

Christina Bertilone and Suzanne McEvoy

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 262 Free

Case reports

Crush injury by an elephant: life-saving prehospital care resulting in a good recovery

Alice M Young, Anthony P Joseph and Alicia Jackson

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 264-265 Free

Lessons from practice

Beware of blotting paper hallucinogens: severe toxicity with NBOMes

Geoffrey K Isbister, Alphonse Poklis, Justin L Poklis and Jeffrey Grice

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 266-267 Free

Ethics and law

Transplantation of the heart after circulatory death of the donor: time for a change in law?

James Tibballs and Neera Bhatia

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 268-270 Free

Reflections

Poem

The days are getting shorter

Rae Desmond Jones

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 271 Free

Careers

Chasing the sun, and TB

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): Free

Around the universities

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): Free

Calendar of conferences in Australia

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): Free