Volume 180, Issue 5 | The Medical Journal of Australia

From the editor’s desk

A relic of the past?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

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Editorials

“Doctor shoppers”: at risk by any other name

Max Kamien

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The science of changing providers’ behaviour: the missing link in evidence-based practice

Robert W Sanson-Fisher, Jeremy M Grimshaw and Martin P Eccles

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Palliative care: promoting general practice participation

Geoffrey K Mitchell, Elizabeth J Reymond and Barry P M McGrath

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Call for MJA submissions

Bronwyn Gaut

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Research

Seeking drugs or seeking help? Escalating “doctor shopping” by young heroin users before fatal overdose

Raymond F Martyres, Danielle Clode and Jane M Burns

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Trends in childhood illness and treatment in Australian general practice, 1971–2001

Janice Charles, Ying Pan and Helena Britt

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Public health

Border screening for SARS in Australia: what has been learnt?

Gina Samaan, Jenean Spencer, Leslee Roberts and Mahomed Patel

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Bites and stings

Mouse spider bites (Missulena spp.) and their medical importance

Geoffrey K Isbister

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Medicine and the community

Statin prescribing in Australia: socioeconomic and sex differences

Nigel P Stocks, Heather McElroy, Philip Ryan and James Allan

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Clinical update

Medical management of osteoarthritis of the knee and hip joints

Rebecca Grainger and Flavia M Cicuttini

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Clinical ethics

Legal and ethical implications of medically enforced feeding of detained asylum seekers on hunger strike

Mary A Kenny, Derrick M Silove and Zachary Steel

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MJA Practice Essentials — Endocrinology

6: Thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer

Emily J Mackenzie and Robin H Mortimer

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Letters

A child with Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi B infection acquired from a fish tank

Sanjaya N Senanayake, Mark J Ferson, Susan J Botham and Roslyn T Belinfante

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Inappropriate use of food quality standards for seafood-derived complementary medicines

Lyndon E Llewellyn, Cedric E Robillot and Andrew P Negri

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Intragam can interfere with blood glucose monitoring

Shanthi Kannan, Christine H Rowland, Gregory I Hockings, Peta M Tauchmann and Edwin A Blackwell

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Coronary heart disease risk prediction by general practitioners in Victoria

Anna Peeters, Jason Ting, Mark R Nelson and John J McNeil

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Prevalence of use of hip protectors in NSW residential aged-care facilities

Keri Lockwood, Ian D Cameron and Susan E Kurrle

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Evidence-based guidelines for fixing broken hips

Timothy J McCulloch

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Evidence-based guidelines for fixing broken hips

Michael N Chilov, Ian D Cameron and Lynette M March

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Public funding of large-scale clinical trials in Australia

Alan Rodger

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Otitis media and ventilating tubes

Paul Walker

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Book reviews

Physician heal thyself

Simon M Willcock

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Sideline tool for sports medicine

Peter A Fricker