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Volume 182 Issue 12

20 June 2005

From the editor’s desk

Mentors and mentoring

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

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Editorials

The easiest cut: managing elective surgery in the public sector

Patrick C Cregan

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 605-606

Clinicians prescribing exercise: is air pollution a hazard?

James E Sharman

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 606-607

Tailoring access to high cost, genetically targeted drugs

Wayne D Hall, Robyn Ward, Winston S Liauw, Jo-anne E Brien and Christine Y Lu

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 607-608

Is this clinical trial fully registered?

Catherine D De Angelis, Jeffrey M Drazen, Frank A Frizelle, Charlotte Haug, John Hoey, Richard C Horton, Sheldon Kotzin, Christine Laine, Ana Marusic, A John P M Overbeke, Torben V Schroeder, Harold C Sox and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 609-610

Research

Cancellation of operations on the day of intended surgery at a major Australian referral hospital

William N Schofield, George L Rubin, Michael Piza, Ying Yin Lai, Doungkamol Sindhusake, Michael R Fearnside and Peter L Klineberg

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 612-615 Free

Medicine and the community

A community-based intervention to reduce antibiotic use for upper respiratory tract infections in regional South Australia

William B Dollman, Vanessa T LeBlanc, Lynette Stevens, Peter J O’Connor and John D Turnidge

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 617-620 Free

Position statement

Adult domiciliary oxygen therapy. Position statement of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand

Christine F McDonald, Alan J Crockett and Iven H Young

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 621-626 Free

Systematic review

Effectiveness of treatments for depression in older people

Cathy J Frazer, Helen Christensen and Kathleen M Griffiths

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 627-632 Free

Personal perspective

Sight-seeing in the Solomon Islands

Michelle L Baker

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 633-634

Notable cases

Severe renal failure and nephrocalcinosis in anorexia nervosa

Matthew A Roberts, Duncan P MacGregor, Nick Paoletti, Francesco L Ierino and Campbell R Thorpe

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 635-636 Free

Diagnostic dilemmas

Potential pitfalls in the diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma

Jane L Harding, Michael W Yeh, Leigh W Delbridge, Stan B Sidhu and Bruce G Robinson

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 637-639

MJA Practice Essentials – Paediatrics

11. Fractures and minor head injuries: minor injuries in children II

Simon J Young, Peter L J Barnett and Ed A Oakley

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 644-648 Free

Letters

Should thyroxine tablets be refrigerated? Have we got it wrong in Australia?

Jim Stockigt

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 650

Should thyroxine tablets be refrigerated? Have we got it wrong in Australia?

Ovais Siddiqui

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 650

Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome: still a problem

Christopher M MacIsaac, Mark A Page, Beverley-Ann Biggs and Kumar Visvanathan

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 651-652

Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome: still a problem

Patrick M Schlievert

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 651-652

Weight gain and diabetes with “second-generation” antipsychotic drugs

Andrew Firestone

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 652-653

A syndromic rash in patients attending methadone clinics in New South Wales

Vernon J Heazlewood

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 653-654 Free

A syndromic rash in patients attending methadone clinics in New South Wales

Rodney D Sinclair

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 653-654 Free

A syndromic rash in patients attending methadone clinics in New South Wales

Jon N Currie, Lisa Snell and Elizabeth M Benson

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 653-654 Free

Life-threatening milk-alkali syndrome resulting from antacid ingestion during pregnancy

Huy A Tran

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 654-655

Life-threatening milk-alkali syndrome resulting from antacid ingestion during pregnancy

Adam P Morton

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 654-655

Life-threatening milk-alkali syndrome resulting from antacid ingestion during pregnancy

Michelle V Gordon, P Shane Hamblin and Lawrence P McMahon

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Obituary

Raymond Herbert KernuttMB BS, MS, FRCS, FRACS

Peter W Graham

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 640 Free

Book reviews

Quit Facts

Ron Borland

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Flu facts

Michael G Catton

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Snapshot

Complete section of pacemaker lead due to subclavian crush

Stephane L Noble, Haran Burri and Henri Sunthorn

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 643 Free

Poem

Thus we see

Stephen Leeder

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 655

Correction

Point-of-care testing of HbA1c and blood glucose in a remote Aboriginal Australian community

David D Martin, Timothy W Jones, Elizabeth A Davis, Mark D S Shephard, Hayley Freeman and Graeme P Maguire

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (12): 656 Free

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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