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5/19 December 2005

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Journal Activities

 

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2005 — Honing our art and our science
Bronwyn Gaut — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 556-558.

Editorials

 

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What is a doctor, and what does a doctor do?
Martin B Van Der Weyden — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 560-561.

 

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Arsenic in drinking water: a natural killer in Bangladesh and beyond
Jack C Ng and Michael R Moore — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 562-563.

Crisis

 

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“Mystery illness” at Melbourne Airport: toxic poisoning or mass hysteria? — Viewpoint
Robert E Bartholomew — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 564-566.

 

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Is the Australian hospital system adequately prepared for terrorism? — Personal Perspective
Jeffrey V Rosenfeld, Mark Fitzgerald, Thomas Kossmann, Andrew Pearce, Andrew Joseph, Gim Tan, Michele Gardner and Shmuel Shapira — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 567-570.

 

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Is the Australian hospital system adequately prepared for terrorism? The Australian Government’s response — Commentary
Mary Murnane and David M Cooper — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 572-573.



Complementary Medicine

 

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Complementary and alternative medicine in 2006: optimising the dose of the intervention — Editorial
Jonathan Berman and Margaret A Chesney — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 574-575.

 

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Public illness: how the community recommended complementary and alternative medicine for a prominent politician with cancer — Medicine and the Community
Ray M Lowenthal — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 576-579.

 

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Propagation of the Absurd: demarcation of the Absurd revisited — Viewpoint
Wallace Sampson and Kimball Atwood IV — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 580-581.

Power Of One

 

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A scientific odyssey: unravelling the secrets of the thymus
Jacques F A Miller — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 582-584.

 

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Challenges, conflict and change
David G Penington — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 585-589.

Medical Education

 

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“Futuristic medical education” — Conference Report
Louise Young and David Wilkinson — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 590-591.

 

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Hospital grand rounds in Australia — Research
Richard Tarala and Alistair W Vickery — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 592-594.

 

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Imperatives in medical education and training in response to demands for a sustainable workforce — For Debate
S Bruce Dowton — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 595-598.

 

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Nurturing personal and professional conscience in an age of corporate globalisation: Bill Viola’s The Passions — Personal Perspective
Thomas A Faunce — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 599-601.

 

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Hippocrates came across our desks — Letter
David J Tiller, Rick McLean and Bruce C Harris — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 602.

 

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Academic absenteeism — Letter
Peter M Brooks — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 602.

Research Enterprise

 

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Australian researchers’ views on current research funding — Editorial
Warwick P Anderson — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 604-605.

 

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Contemporary (post-Wills) survey of the views of Australian medical researchers: importance of funding, infrastructure and motivators for a research career — Research
Louise G Shewan, Jane A Glatz, Christine C Bennett and Andrew J S Coats — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 606-611.

 

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The 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Martin B Van Der Weyden, Ruth M Armstrong and Ann T Gregory — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 612-614.

Medicine and Society

 

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Religious perspectives on withdrawal of treatment from patients with multiple organ failure
Rachel A Ankeny, Ross Clifford, Christopher F C Jordens, Ian H Kerridge and Rod Benson — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 616-621.

 

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Never say die?
Simon Chapman — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 622-624.

 

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Let us be prepared
Bebe Loff — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 625-626.

Communication and Doctors

 

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Professional discretion, courtesy and plain good manners: an anecdotal and personal view — Personal Perspective
Jane L Nuttall — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 627-628.

 

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Communication and courtesy between medical professionals — Commentary
Max Kamien — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 629.

 

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The perils of the "remote" radiologist — Commentary
Lizbeth M Kenny and Fiona Pacey — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 630.

Bites and Stings

 

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Prospective study of Chironex fleckeri and other box jellyfish stings in the “Top End” of Australia’s Northern Territory
Bart J Currie and Susan P Jacups — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 631-636.

Quotable Quotes

 

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Metaphorically speaking
Ann T Gregory — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 637.

History

 

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Mawson and Mertz: a re-evaluation of their ill-fated mapping journey during the 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition
Denise Carrington-Smith — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 638-641.

 

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Royal Newcastle Hospital: the passing of an icon
John M Duggan and Peter I A Hendry — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 642-645.

The Profession

 

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The medical colleges in Australia: besieged but bearing up
Kerrie A Lawson, Ann T Gregory and Martin B Van Der Weyden — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 646-651.

 

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Eleanor Dark's Slow dawning: a woman in rural practice in the 1920s
William Coote — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 652-653.

 

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Who’s killing the autopsy? A new tool for assessing the causes of falling autopsy rates
Roger W Byard — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 654-655.

True Stories

 

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Doggonit, it’s Christmas
Mervyn D Cobcroft and Charles Pembroke-Corgi — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 656-658.

 

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“The more I give, the more I receive”
David Wilkinson — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 659-661.

Medicine and the Media

 

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Can medical journals lead or must they follow?
Richard Smith — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 665-668.

Christmas Offerings

 

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Ailing allegories and sickly stories: the quest for pathology in children’s literature
Brown J McCallum and Stuart M Smith — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 670-671.

 

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Effect of ambulance diversion on patient mortality: how access block can save your life
Daniel M Fatovich — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 672-673.

 

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Good tidings of great joy via email
Balakrishnan R Nair — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 674.

 

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Weather patients will come?
Daniel K B Ou, The-Phung To and David McD Taylor — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 675-677.

 

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The impact of ophthalmic surgery on the public image of psychiatry
Garry J Walter — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 678.

Book Reviews

 

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The must-have health guide
reviewed by Simon C Cowap Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 581.

 

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Beyond borders. McGraw-Hill's guide to health placements
reviewed by David Wilkinson Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 662.

 

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A bloke's guide to keeping it up down under. A sexual health guide
reviewed by Denis J Cherry Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 662.

 

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The essential guide to herbal safety
reviewed by Alan Bensoussan Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 663.

 

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The fetal matrix. Evolution, development and disease
reviewed by David A Ellwood Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 663.

Letters

 

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“Bucket seat bursitis” — Letter
Allen E Gale — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 594.

 

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The risks of a “Commonwealth Solution” for mental health
Joseph M Rey — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 624.

 

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Where there’s smoke, there’s Mucomyst?
Jim Siderov — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 655.

Snapshot

 

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A marriage of inconvenience
David James, Nathan Lawrentschuk and D O Hii — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 626.

 

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“Boomerang sign” in the splenium of the corpus callosum
Jeyaraj D Pandian and Robert D Henderson — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 628.

 

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A J-shaped mass in the abdomen
Guneesh Dadayal, Dipesh D Duttaroy and Sashidhar Yeluri — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 673.

 

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Finding inner peace
Richard Hayden Riley and Richard Sallie — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 677.

 

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“Lesionnaire’s syndrome”
Dennis Velakoulis, Christos Pantelis and Mark Walterfang — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 679.

 

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Bone of my bone
Anthony R Herbert — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 679.

MJA Christmas Competition

 

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We have liftoff!
Ruth Armstrong — Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11/12): 680.

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