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Contents

1/15 December 2003

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Journal activities

 

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The year in review
Bronwyn Gaut — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 565.

 

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Our annual Christmas competition: The main game
Ruth M Armstrong — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 655

Editorials

 

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Can compassion survive the 21st century?
Mabel Chew, Ruth M Armstrong and Martin B Van Der Weyden — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 569-570.

 

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Wealth, poverty and climate change
Kirk R Smith — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 571-572.

Conference report

 

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Health and foreign policy: scope for Australian engagement?
Anthony B Zwi and Michael A Reid — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 573-574.

Postcard from the UK

 

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What drives the NHS?
Konrad Jamrozik, Richard F Heller and David P Weller — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 575-576.

Weighty Issues

 

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Snowballing obesity: Australians will get run over if they just sit there
John C Catford and Ian D Caterson — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 577-579.

 

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Waist–hip ratio is the dominant risk factor predicting cardiovascular death in Australia
Timothy A Welborn, Satvinder S Dhaliwal and Stanley A Bennett — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 580-585.

 

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The costs of weight control: what do young women pay?
Kylie Ball, Sari Andajani-Sutjahjo and David Crawford — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 586.

 

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Epidemic of diabetes in China
Tsung O Cheng — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 586.

Frontline Medicine

 

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Medical practice on the front line: separating the myths from the reality
Tracy L Smart — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 587-590.

 

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An Afghanistan experience
Brett A Sutton — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 591-593.

Cultural Evolution

 

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A richer tapestry of many identities
David Williamson — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 594-595.

 

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From Beirut to Sydney: backyards, breast cancer, and basic opportunity
Nehmat Houssami — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 595-597.

 

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An Australian with a Chinese face
John S Yu — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 598-600.

 

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Across two continents and a century: the tale of two doctors
George R Santoro — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 600-602.

The Research Enterprise

 

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Bench-to-bedside research in Australian research institutes: a snapshot
Martin B Van Der Weyden — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 603-610.

 

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Nobel Prizes for magnetic resonance imaging and channel proteins
Jamie I Vandenberg and Philip W Kuchel — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 611-613.

 

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Research within a medical degree: the combined MB BS–PhD program at the University of Sydney
Brian D Power, Andrew J White and Ann J Sefton — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 614-616.

The Power of One

 

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Stemming the tide of river blindness: the early years of ivermectin
Hugh R Taylor — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 617-619.

 

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Paper bullets of the brain
James W Lance — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 620-623.

Medical Education

 

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Three years of “CASMS”: the world’s busiest medical simulation centre
Richard H Riley, Amanda M Grauze, Claire Chinnery, Ross A Horley and Neil H Trewhella — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 626-630.

 

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The Fiji School of Medicine postgraduate training project
Gordon J A Clunie, Eddie McCaig and Wame Baravilala — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12):631-632.

Medical Maestros

 

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Australian Doctors’ Orchestra: mixing music and medicine
Catherine Fraser — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 633-637.

Medicine and the Media

 

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Of miracle cures and murderous doctors
Anthony Daniels; — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 637-638.

 

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Media reporting of specific mental illnesses in the context of crime: implications for mental health literacy
Catherine Francis, Jane E Pirkis, R Warwick Blood, Philip M Burgess and David R Dunt — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 638.

 

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An analysis of newspaper reports of cancer breakthroughs: hope or hype?
Ethel S Ooi and Simon Chapman — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 639-643.

 

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Healthy Skepticism’s new AdWatch: understanding drug promotion
Peter R Mansfield — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 644.

Life and Death in the Emergency Department

 

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Feeling at home in an emergency: coping with death in the emergency department
Christopher J Ryan and Robert P Dowsett — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 646.

 

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Death in the emergency department: a not so absolutely ordinary rainbow
Keith D Edwards — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 647-648.

 

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Measuring the immeasurable
Gerard M O'Reilly, Alfredo Mori and Peter A Cameron — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 649-650.

 

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The homeless and the emergency department: a special relationship
Gordian W O Fulde — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 651-652.

 

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What’s in a name? The dangers of the unknown in the emergency department
Daniel M Fatovich — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 653.

Bites and Stings

 

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Another cause of “Irukandji stingings”
Mark Little and Jamie Seymour — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 654.

 

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Sublingual glyceryl trinitrate as prehospital treatment for hypertension in Irukandji syndrome
Peter J Fenner and Morris Lewin — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 655.

Christmas Offerings

 

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Is four a deadly number for the Chinese?
Nirmal S Panesar, Noel C Y Chan, Shi N Li, Joyce K Y Lo, Vivien W Y Wong, Isaac B Yang and Emily K Y Yip — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 656-658.

 

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Interns are from Venus, consultants are from Mars: differential perception among clinicians
Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair, John R Attia, Steven J Bowe, Stephen R Mears and Karen I Hitchcock — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 659-661.

 

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Political correctness in the modern hospital, or, PC in 2003
Dominic A Fitzgerald and David Isaacs — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 663-664.

Quotable Quotes

 

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Between the sounds of silence . . .
Ann T Gregory — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 666.

Stories and Snapshots

 

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School of the air
Susan M Gorton — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 667.

 

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Medical mispronunciations
Catherine E Yelland and Stephen D Yelland — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 668.

 

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On your bike!
Keith B Greenland — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 669-670.

 

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Dejection: a novel cause of rejection?
Anthony J Penington — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 572.

 

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X marks the spot
David C Wong — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 590.

 

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Watch out Dorothy
Bit Lock Wong — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 597.

 

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Divine intervention
Chris J O’Donnell — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 602.

 

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The Land from Down Under
Alison M Skene, Alastair J Veitch and Piero L Nelva — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 602.

 

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Teed off
Timothy C Green — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 643.

 

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Radish sprouts fingers!
JG Chethan Kumar — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 648.

 

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Getting the finger out on random-digit dialling
Stuart C Howell and Guy D Eslick — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 664.

 

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Hypercarotenosis?
Lloyd K Morgan — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 666.

 

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Aortic dissection presenting as an ECG disturbance
Andrew Bonura — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 670.

 

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#$*%$#^* – it” !
Garry J Walter — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 670.

 

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Anaesthesia blues
Philip J Armstrong — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 671.

 

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Rural health — it’s a dog’s life
Robyn L Pogmore — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 671.

 

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All wired up and nowhere to go
Anonymous — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 672.

Letters

 

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A “multilemma” for doctors
Dennis D Arnold and Thomas KF Taylor — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 630.

 

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The patience of patients
Biji T Kurien — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 653.

 

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There is such a thing as a free lunch?
William Coote — Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11/12): 672.

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