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2026 - Volume 224 - Issue 7

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Rudi Louis Taylor-Bragge

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Reorienting Allied Health Into Community-Based Care for People Experiencing Trauma and Social Disadvantage

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2026 - Volume 224 - Issue 7

3 August 2026

Reflection 23 July 2026 Free

Beds Still Burning: Suicide Should Not Be in the Vocabulary of Children

Rudi Louis Taylor-Bragge

Erratum 21 July 2026 Free

Erratum

Perspective 20 July 2026 Open Access

Reorienting Allied Health Into Community-Based Care for People Experiencing Trauma and Social Disadvantage

Simon Rosenbaum, Grace McKeon, Gulsah Kurt, Oscar Lederman, Kemi Wright, Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Jackie E. Curtis, Philip B. Ward, Zachary Steel, Hamish Fibbins, Rachel Morell, Melissa C. Eaton, Andrew Watkins, Ben Harris-Roxas, Brendan Goodger, Eleanor Beck, Megan Teychenne, Joseph Firth, Davy Vancampfort, David Burns, Russell Roberts, Tristan Favaloro, Danielle Weber, Rosanna Barbero, Vasili Maroulis, Melissa Holmes, Stefan Mackenzie, Chiara Mastrogiovanni, Afsana Anwar, Uzma Choudhry, Catherine Sherrington, Jane Currie, Thomas Gadsden, Scott Teasdale

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Volume 173 - Issue 11

Biting back pain

Author:  Geoffrey J Coltheart

Med J Aust 2000; 173 (11): 658.
Published online: 4 December 2000
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Biting back pain

MJA 2000; 173: 658

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The patient's vertebral osteophytes appear to be about to bite the calcified abdominal aorta.

Geoffrey J Coltheart, FRACS
Sawyers Gully, NSW




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