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From the Editor’s Desk: Advice to doctors   Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 1.

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In This Issue . . .   Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 2.

Editorials

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Patient safety: time for a transformational change in medical education
William B Runciman — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 3-4.

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Has PSA testing truly been a “public health disaster”?
Anthony J Costello and Declan G Murphy — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 4-5.

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MMR, Wakefield and The Lancet: what can we learn?
Julie Leask, Robert Booy and Peter B McIntyre — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 5-7.

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Towards more uniform conflict disclosures: the updated ICMJE conflict of interest reporting form
Jeffrey M Drazen, Peter W de Leeuw, Christine Laine, Cynthia Mulrow, Catherine D DeAngelis, Frank A Frizelle, Fiona Godlee, Charlotte Haug, Paul C Hébert, Astrid James, Sheldon Kotzin, Ana Marusic, Humberto Reyes, Jacob Rosenberg, Peush Sahni, Martin B Van Der Weyden and Getu Zhaori — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 7-8.

Research

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Australian attitudes to early and late abortion
Lachlan J de Crespigny, Dominic J Wilkinson, Thomas Douglas, Mark Textor and Julian Savulescu — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 9-12.

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Views and practices of induced abortion among Australian Fellows and specialist trainees of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Caroline M de Costa, Darren B Russell and Michael Carrette — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 13-16.

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The impact of obesity on weight change and outcomes at 12 months in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty
Michelle M Dowsey, Danny Liew, James D Stoney and Peter F M Choong — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 17-21.

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The US Medicare policy of not reimbursing hospital-acquired conditions: what impact would such a policy have in Victorian hospitals?
Peter D McNair, Terri J Jackson and Daniel J Borovnicar — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 22-25.

Medicine and the Law

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Early medical abortion: legal and medical developments in Australia
Kerry A Petersen — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 26-29.

Health Care

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Issues facing the Australian Health Technology Assessment Review of medical technology funding
Susanne P O’Malley — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 30-33.

Medical Education

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Meeting the challenges of training more medical students: lessons from Flinders University’s distributed medical education program
Ian D Couper and Paul S Worley — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 34-36.

For Debate

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Fifteen years of bowel cancer screening policy in Australia: putting evidence into practice?
Kathy L Flitcroft, Glenn P Salkeld, James A Gillespie, Lyndal J Trevena and Les M Irwig — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 37-42.

Viewpoint

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Influenza surveillance in Australia: we need to do more than count
Stephen B Lambert, Cassandra E Faux, Kristina A Grant, Simon H Williams, Cheryl Bletchly, Michael G Catton, David W Smith and Heath A Kelly — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 43-45.

Clinical Update

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Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine (carcinoid) tumours: current diagnosis and management
Irvin M Modlin, Steven F Moss, Kjell Oberg, Robert Padbury, Rodney J Hicks, Bjorn I Gustafsson, Nicholas A Wright and Mark Kidd — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 46-52.

Lessons from Practice

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Salmonella Rubislaw gastroenteritis linked to a pet lizard
Cameron R M Moffatt, Antony R Lafferty, Saral Khan, Radomir Krsteski, Mary Valcanis, Joan Powling and Mark Veitch — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 54-55.

Letters

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A risk for returned travellers: the “post-antibiotic era”
Geethanie A T P Fernando, Peter J Collignon and Jan M Bell — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 59.

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National registration of health professionals: could it presage national regulation of Schedule 8 medicines?
Colin M Brown — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 59.

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A rare granulomatous reaction to Q fever vaccination following influenza vaccination
Deborah Burnett and Leslie Burnett — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 60.

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It’s time to depolarise the unhelpful PSA-testing debate and put into practice lessons from the two major international screening trials
Kenneth A Sikaris — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 61.

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Myths of ideal hospital occupancy
David Mountain, Daniel Fatovich and Sally McCarthy — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 61-62.

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Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery — are we getting it right?
Frank A Shann || Keryn J Christiansen — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 62-63.

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Primary care services and emergency medicine
Marjan Kljakovic — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 63.

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Rationing versus increased taxes
Jeremy W Butler — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 63-64.

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Measurement of jugular venous pressure
David M Colquhoun and Glenn Jenkins — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 64.

Obituary

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Gregory Robert Mundy
Peter M Brooks, Michael G Loughhead and Allan J McLean — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 42.

Snapshot

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Christmas lights in the gastrointestinal tract
Yohan Chacko and Carolyn J Clark — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 56.

Film Review

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Riwayat
reviewed by Caroline M De Costa — Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 56.

Columns

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In Other Journals   Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 58.

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