eMJA: Contents - 4 February 2002

Contents

4 February 2002

	HTML PDF	From the editor's desk: Teaching and thinking (MJA 2002; 176: 93)
	HTML PDF	In This Issue . . . (MJA 2002; 176: 94)
Editorials
	HTML PDF	Nurse-led telephone advice Martin Roland (MJA 2002; 176: 96)
	HTML PDF	When is diabetes really diabetes? Stephen Colagiuri (MJA 2002; 176: 97-98)
	HTML PDF	Medical commencement oaths: shards of a fractured myth, or seeds of hope against a dispiriting future? Edmund D Pellegrino (MJA 2002; 176: 99)
Healthcare
	HTML PDF	Telephone triage in Western Australia Valendar F Turner, Peter J Bentley, Sharon A Hodgson, Peter J Collard, Rosalia Drimatis, Catherine Rabune, Andrew J Wilson (MJA 2002; 176: 100-103)
	HTML PDF	Diabetes detection in Australian general practice: a comparison of diagnostic criteria Deborah J Hilton, Peter K O'Rourke, Timothy A Welborn, Christopher M Reid (MJA 2002; 176: 104-107)
Medicine and the Community
	HTML PDF	Menstrual and contraceptive management in women with an intellectual disability Sonia R Grover (MJA 2002; 176: 108-110)
Notable Cases
	HTML PDF	Emergency endovascular stent-graft repair for thoracic aortic injury Julian A Hanson, D Mark Brooks, Jai S Raman (MJA 2002; 176: 111-112)
Medicine and the Law
	HTML PDF	Sharp v Port Kembla RSL Club: establishing causation of laryngeal cancer by environmental tobacco smoke Bernard W Stewart, Peter C B Semmler (MJA 2002; 176: 113-116)
Clinical Ethics
	HTML PDF	Ethical issues concerning the relationships between medical practitioners and the pharmaceutical industry Paul A Komesaroff, Ian H Kerridge (MJA 2002; 176: 118-121)
The Profession
	HTML PDF	Declarations made by graduating medical students in Australia and New Zealand Paul M McNeill, S Bruce Dowton (MJA 2002; 176: 123-125)
Lessons from Practice
	HTML PDF	Surgical management of amiodarone-associated thyrotoxicosis Ian R Gough, Jenny Gough (MJA 2002; 176: 128-129)
EBM in Action
	HTML PDF	Tepid sponging and paracetamol for reduction of body temperature in febrile children Vivienne F Bernath, Jeremy N Anderson, Chris A Silagy (MJA 2002; 176: 130)
Letters
	HTML PDF	Is bupropion (Zyban) causing deaths? Simon C Chapman, Konrad Jamrozik (MJA 2002; 176: 134)
	HTML PDF	Carotid stenting or endarterectomy for stroke prevention Jonathan Golledge (MJA 2002; 176: 134-135)
	HTML PDF	Carotid stenting - current caution Peter L Field (MJA 2002; 176: 135)
	HTML PDF	Content of isoflavone-containing preparations Jan B Howes, Laurence G Howes (MJA 2002; 176: 135-136)
	HTML PDF	Screening for gestational diabetes: the time of day is important Aidan McElduff, Rosemary Hitchman (MJA 2002; 176: 136)
	HTML PDF	Changing demographics of cervical carcinoma Nicholas J Mulvany, Norman R Sonenberg (MJA 2002; 176: 136-137)
	HTML PDF	Ethics and evidence-based medicine Simon R Tomlinson Kerry J Breen Malcolm H Parker, Chris B Del Mar, Paul P Glasziou Lucie Rychetnik, Stephen R Leeder (MJA 2002; 176: 137-139)
	HTML PDF	Serum alanine aminotransferase levels and the detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in chronic HCV infections Heath A Kelly, William J Maskil, William Sievert, D Scott Bowden (MJA 2002; 176: 139)
	HTML PDF	Prejudice against mental illness Name and address withheld (MJA 2002; 176: 140)
Book Reviews
	HTML PDF	20 common problems in urology reviewed by Mohamed H Khadra (MJA 2002; 176: 122)
	HTML PDF	Cambridge medical ethics workbook reviewed by Ian Kerridge (MJA 2002; 176: 122)
	HTML PDF	Understanding asthma. A management companion reviewed by Louis I Landau (MJA 2002; 176: 132)
	HTML PDF	Life on a roller-coaster. Living well with depression and manic depression reviewed by Philip Mitchell (MJA 2002; 176: 132)
Columns
	HTML PDF	In Other Journals . . . (MJA 2002; 176: 133)

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