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Christmas competition / Winner

The Paediatric Aussie Chocolate Poo Scale

Guy D Eslick and Eloise G Eslick

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (11): 591-592 Free

Christmas competition

“Harry Potter and the Multitudinous Maladies”: a retrospective population‐based observational study of morbidity and mortality among witches and wizards

Vincent D Gaertner, Elia D Helwig, Brett J Manley, Omar F Kamlin, Andrea Kraus and Christoph M Rüegger

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (11): 592-597 Open Access

Christmas competition

Meals and movies: making our microbiota merry

Olivia Yousef and Stephen De Souza

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (11): 597-600 Free

Christmas competition

“A banana a day keeps wound failure away”: comparing the utility of fruit, pig, and synthetic skins for suturing practice

Geoffrey Murphy, Muhammad A Khan, Adil Lathif and John Preddy

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 536-540 Free

Christmas competition

Garlic as a vampire deterrent: fact or fiction?

Evangeline Mantzioris and Philip Weinstein

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 541-543 Free

Christmas competition

What is life? (A 2020–21 Victorian lament)

Andrew Huang

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 544-544 Free

Christmas competition / Winner

A guide to the management of atrial fibrillation in Santa Claus

Mark T Mills and David R Warriner

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 529-531 Free

Christmas competition

The CRECHE study: testing the urban myth that chocolate Santa Clauses are re‐wrapped Easter Bunnies

Dirk Stengel, Alexander Hönning, Stephan Just, Sven Mutze, Axel Ekkernkamp, Tobias Ohmann, Hajo Haase, Patric Kröpil and Leonie Gölz

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 531-535 Free

Christmas competition / Third place

The year of the ‘rona: an uncontrolled trial in verse

Rob D Mitchell

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 524-524 Free

Christmas competition

Fear

Heather Cameron

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 525-525

Christmas competition

For sale: rare piece of polar paradise

Katrina JR Watson

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 525-525

Christmas competition

My love affair with the pleural space

John Massie

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 526-528.e1

Christmas competition / Winner

Scientists in pyjamas: characterising the working arrangements and productivity of Australian medical researchers during the COVID‐19 pandemic

David G Chapman and Cindy Thamrin

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 516-520 Free

Christmas competition / Second place

What the forks? A longitudinal quality improvement study tracking cutlery numbers in a public teaching and research hospital staff tearoom

Mark Mattiussi, Amelia Livermore, Annabel Levido, Therese Starr, Melissa Lassig‐Smith, Janine Stuart, Cheryl Fourie and Joel Dulhunty

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 521-523 Free

Christmas competition / Third place

Standards of obstetric care in first century Bethlehem

Ashray Rajagopalan and Ellen Rajagopalan

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (11): 518 Free

Christmas competition

Blondes do not have more fun: a non‐blinded crossover field study

Dennis Zetner, Jesper Ryg, Kristoffer Andresen, Anders Schack, Rasmus Alder and Jacob Rosenberg

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (11): 519-522

Christmas competition

What would happen if Santa Claus was sick? His impact on communicable disease transmission

Yuki Furuse

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (11): 523-524

Christmas competition

Medical references and curiosities in the Sherlock Holmes stories

Jan D Kampmann

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (11): 525-527

Christmas competition

Repurposing medical equipment

R John Massie

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (11): 527-528

Christmas competition / Winner

Predictors of ManuScript Rejection sYndrome (MiSeRY): a cohort study

Hui‐Chen Han, Anoop Ninan Koshy, Tina Lin, Matias Yudi, David Clark, Andrew W Teh and Omar Farouque

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (11): 511-513 Free

Christmas competition / Second place

Symbolic sexism: superficial or serious bias? An investigation into images on patient call bells

Laura RE Chapman, Sara Mellow and Hannah Coombridge

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (11): 514-517 Free

Christmas competition

The Observational Physician and surGEon Automobile Response (TOP GEAR) survey

Melissa Ellis, Michelle Sun, Megan Wood and WengOnn Chan

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (11): 503-505

Christmas competition

Carols by glow sticks: a retrospective analysis of Poisons Information Centre data

Rose Cairns, Jared A Brown, Andrew H Dawson, Wendy Davis and Nicholas A Buckley

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (11): 505-508

Christmas competition

C-ABC: cash before care in a private emergency department?

Stephen S Teo and Vijay Manivel

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (11): 509-510

Christmas competition

The Christmas e-list (an ode to big data)

Stephanie A Prince

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (11): 510