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Contents 5/19 December 2005 |
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Journal Activities |
2005 — Honing our art and our science
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Editorials |
What is a doctor, and what does a doctor do?
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Arsenic in drinking water: a natural killer in Bangladesh and beyond
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Crisis |
“Mystery illness” at Melbourne Airport: toxic poisoning or mass hysteria?
— Viewpoint |
Is the Australian hospital system adequately prepared for terrorism?
— Personal Perspective |
Is the Australian hospital system adequately prepared for terrorism? The Australian Government’s response
— Commentary |



Complementary Medicine |
Complementary and alternative medicine in 2006: optimising the dose of the intervention
— Editorial |
Public illness: how the community recommended complementary and alternative medicine for a prominent politician with cancer
— Medicine and the Community |
Propagation of the Absurd: demarcation of the Absurd revisited
— Viewpoint |
Power Of One |
A scientific odyssey: unravelling the secrets of the thymus
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Challenges, conflict and change
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Medical Education |
“Futuristic medical education”
— Conference Report |
Hospital grand rounds in Australia
— Research |
Imperatives in medical education and training in response to demands for a sustainable workforce
— For Debate |
Nurturing personal and professional conscience in an age of corporate globalisation: Bill Viola’s The Passions
— Personal Perspective |
Hippocrates came across our desks
— Letter |
Academic absenteeism
— Letter |
Research Enterprise |
Australian researchers’ views on current research funding
— Editorial |
Contemporary (post-Wills) survey of the views of Australian medical researchers: importance of funding, infrastructure and motivators for a research career
— Research |
The 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Medicine and Society |
Religious perspectives on withdrawal of treatment from patients with multiple organ failure
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Never say die?
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Let us be prepared
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Communication and Doctors |
Professional discretion, courtesy and plain good manners:
an anecdotal and personal view
— Personal Perspective |
Communication and courtesy between medical professionals
— Commentary |
The perils of the "remote" radiologist
— Commentary |
Bites and Stings |
Prospective study of Chironex fleckeri and other box jellyfish stings in the “Top End” of Australia’s Northern Territory
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Quotable Quotes |
Metaphorically speaking
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History |
Mawson and Mertz: a re-evaluation of their ill-fated mapping journey during the 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition
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Royal Newcastle Hospital: the passing of an icon
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The Profession |
The medical colleges in Australia: besieged but bearing up
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Eleanor Dark's Slow dawning:
a woman in rural practice in the 1920s
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Who’s killing the autopsy?
A new tool for assessing the causes of falling autopsy rates
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True Stories |
Doggonit, it’s Christmas
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“The more I give, the more I receive”
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Medicine and the Media |
Can medical journals lead or must they follow?
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Christmas Offerings |
Ailing allegories and sickly stories:
the quest for pathology in children’s literature
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Effect of ambulance diversion on patient mortality:
how access block can save your life
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Good tidings of great joy via email
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Weather patients will come?
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The impact of ophthalmic surgery on the public image of psychiatry
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Book Reviews |
The must-have health guide
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Beyond borders. McGraw-Hill's guide to health placements
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A bloke's guide to keeping it up down under. A sexual health guide
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The essential guide to herbal safety
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The fetal matrix. Evolution, development and disease
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Letters |
“Bucket seat bursitis”
— Letter |
The risks of a “Commonwealth Solution” for mental health
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Where there’s smoke, there’s Mucomyst?
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Snapshot |
A marriage of inconvenience
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“Boomerang sign” in the splenium of the corpus callosum
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A J-shaped mass in the abdomen
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Finding
inner peace
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“Lesionnaire’s syndrome”
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Bone of my bone
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MJA Christmas Competition |
We have liftoff!
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