Volume 179, Issue 11 — 8 December, 2003

Journal activities

The year in review

Bronwyn Gaut

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 565-567.

The main game

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 655.

Editorials

Can compassion survive the 21st century?

Mabel Chew, Ruth M Armstrong and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 569-570.

Wealth, poverty and climate change

Kirk R Smith

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 571-572.

Conference report

Health and foreign policy: scope for Australian engagement?

Anthony B Zwi and Michael A Reid

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 573-574.

Postcard from the UK

What drives the NHS?

Konrad Jamrozik, Richard F Heller and David P Weller

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 575-576.

Weighty Issues

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): 577-579.

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): 580-585.

The costs of weight control: what do young women pay?

Kylie Ball, Sari Andajani-Sutjahjo and David Crawford

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 586.

Epidemic of diabetes in China

Tsung O Cheng

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 586.

Frontline medicine

Medical practice on the front line: separating the myths from the reality

Tracy L Smart

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 587-590.

An Afghanistan experience

Brett A Sutton

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 591-593.

Cultural evolution

A richer tapestry of many identities

David Williamson

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 594-595.

From Beirut to Sydney: backyards, breast cancer, and basic opportunity

Nehmat Houssami

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 595-597.

An Australian with a Chinese face

John S Yu

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 598-600.

Across two continents and a century: the tale of two doctors

George R Santoro

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 600-602.

The Research Enterprise

Bench-to-bedside research in Australian research institutes: a snapshot

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 603-610.

Nobel Prizes for magnetic resonance imaging and channel proteins

Jamie I Vandenberg and Philip W Kuchel

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 611-613.

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): 614-616.

The Power of One

Stemming the tide of river blindness: the early years of ivermectin

Hugh R Taylor

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 617-619.

Paper bullets of the brain

James W Lance

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 620-623.

Medical education

Three years of “CASMS”: the world’s busiest medical simulation centre

Richard H Riley, Amanda M Grauze, Neil H Trewhella, Claire Chinnery and Ross A Horley

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 626-630.

The Fiji School of Medicine postgraduate training project

Gordon J A Clunie, Eddie McCaig and Wame Baravilala

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 631-632.

Medical maestros

Australian Doctors’ Orchestra: mixing music and medicine

Catherine Fraser

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 633-637.

Medicine and the media

Of miracle cures and murderous doctors

Anthony Daniels

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 637-638.

Media reporting of specific mental illnesses in the context of crime: implications for mental health literacy

Catherine Francis, Jane E Pirkis, David R Dunt, R Warwick Blood and Philip M Burgess

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 638.

An analysis of newspaper reports of cancer breakthroughs: hope or hype?

Ethel S Ooi and Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 639-643.

Healthy Skepticism’s new AdWatch: understanding drug promotion

Peter R Mansfield

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 644-645.

Life and Death in the Emergency Department

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): 646.

Death in the emergency department: a not so absolutely ordinary rainbow

Keith D Edwards

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 647-648.

Measuring the immeasurable

Gerard M O'Reilly, Alfredo Mori and Peter A Cameron

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 649-650.

The homeless and the emergency department: a special relationship

Gordian W O Fulde

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 651-652.

What’s in a name? The dangers of the unknown in the emergency department

Daniel M Fatovich

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 653.

Bites and stings

Another cause of “Irukandji stingings”

Mark Little and Jamie Seymour

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 654.

Sublingual glyceryl trinitrate as prehospital treatment for hypertension in Irukandji syndrome

Peter J Fenner and Morris Lewin

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 655.

Christmas offerings

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): 656-658.

Interns are from Venus, consultants are from Mars: differential perception among clinicians

Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair, Stephen R Mears, Karen I Hitchcock, John R Attia and Steven J Bowe

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 659-661.

Political correctness in the modern hospital, or, PC in 2003

Dominic A Fitzgerald and David Isaacs

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 663-664.

Quotable quotes

Between the sounds of silence . . .

Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 666.

Stories and Snapshots

School of the air

Susan M Gorton

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 667.

Medical mispronunciations

Catherine E Yelland and Stephen D Yelland

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 668.

On your bike!

Keith B Greenland

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 669-670.

Dejection: a novel cause of rejection?

Anthony J Penington

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 572.

X marks the spot

David C Wong

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 590.

Watch out Dorothy

Bit Lock Wong

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 597.

Divine intervention

Chris J O’Donnell

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 602.

The Land from Down Under

Alison M Skene, Alastair J Veitch and Piero L Nelva

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 602.

Teed off

Timothy C Green

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 643.

Radish sprouts fingers!

JG Chethan Kumar

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 648.

Getting the finger out on random-digit dialling

Stuart C Howell and Guy D Eslick

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 664.

Hypercarotenosis?

Lloyd K Morgan

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 666.

Aortic dissection presenting as an ECG disturbance

Andrew Bonura

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 670.

“#$*%$#^* – it” !

Garry J Walter

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 670.

Anaesthesia blues

Philip J Armstrong

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 671.

Rural health — it’s a dog’s life

Robyn L Pogmore

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 671.

All wired up and nowhere to go

Name Withheld

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 672.

Letters

A “multilemma” for doctors

Dennis D Arnold and Thomas KF Taylor

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 630.

The patience of patients

Biji T Kurien

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 653.

There is such a thing as a free lunch?

William Coote

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): 672.