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Volume 206 Issue 4

6 March 2017

News

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 148 Free

Perspectives

Overcoming negative perceptions among Australian medical students about a career in general practice

David Townsend, Nicola Campbell and Claire Chandler

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 149-150

Beyond ice: rethinking Australia's approach to illicit drugs

Matthew Y Frei and Alex D Wodak

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 151-152 Free

Variation in the costs of surgery: seeking value

David J Hillis, David AK Watters, Lawrie Malisano, Nick Bailey and David Rankin

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 153-154 Free

Holistic medicine provision in the outback

John T Wenham, Malcolm Moore and Zachary Pancer

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 155-156

Medical education

Lessons from practice

Light-based epilation device-related injury to the cornea

Lawrence Oh and Stephanie Watson

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 157

Innovations

Teaching future doctors for modern health care

Zsuzsoka Kecskes and Imogen Mitchell

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 158-159

Snapshot

Henoch–Schönlein purpura following Yersinia enterocolitica infection

Kylie Ngu, Kate J Robson and David J Goodman

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 160

Book/Media/App Review

Book/Media/App review

Theory, history and contemporary topics for medical education scholars

Victoria A Brazil

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 160

Editorials

Self-poisoning by older Australians

Malcolm J Hopwood

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 161-162 Free

Variation in the fees of medical specialists: problems, causes, solutions

Ian S McRae and Kees C van Gool

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 162-163 Free

Research

Self-poisoning by older Australians: a cohort study

Peter I Pillans, Colin B Page, Sivarajah Ilango, Anna Kashchuk and Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 164-169 Free

Understanding 30-day re-admission after hospitalisation of older patients for diabetes: identifying those at greatest risk

Gillian E Caughey, Nicole L Pratt, John D Barratt, Sepehr Shakib, Anna R Kemp-Casey and Elizabeth E Roughead

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 170-175 Free

Variation in outpatient consultant physician fees in Australia by specialty and state and territory

Gary L Freed and Amy R Allen

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 176-180 Free

Narrative review

Thirty years of the World Health Organization’s target caesarean section rate: time to move on

Stephen J Robson and Caroline M de Costa

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 181-185

Letters

Public access defibrillation: emerging importance of automated external defibrillators as a diagnostic clinical tool

Andrew D Mulligan, Omar Al-Mukhtar and Michael Wong

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 186

The economic benefits of eliminating Indigenous health inequality in the Northern Territory

Richard X Davey

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 186

The economic benefits of eliminating Indigenous health inequality in the Northern Territory

Yuejen Zhao

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 186

Careers

Turning up

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): Free

Around the universities and research institutes

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): Free

Calendar of conferences in Australia and New Zealand

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): Free