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Volume 196 Issue 8

7 May 2012

Editor's choice

Training doctors — too long in the cellar?

Astika Kappagoda

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 489 Free

Editorials

The urgency of saving lives through bowel cancer screening

Ian N Olver and Graeme P Young

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 490-491

Survival from pancreatic cancer: it’s not just about the surgical mortality

Robert T A Padbury

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 491-492

The need for regulation of office-based procedures

F A Hugh Bartholomeusz

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 492-493

In brief

From the Cochrane Library

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 494

News

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 495

Perspectives

Engineering the surgical imagination

John A Cartmill and David Butt

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 497

The ageing surgeon

Bruce P Waxman

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 498

Letters

Emergency department overcrowding and mortality after the introduction of the 4-hour rule in Western Australia

Biswadev Mitra and Peter A Cameron

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 499

Emergency department overcrowding and mortality after the introduction of the 4-hour rule in Western Australia

Dylan J Toh, Campbell H Thompson, Josephine S Thomas and Jeffrey Faunt

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 499-500

Emergency department overcrowding and mortality after the introduction of the 4-hour rule in Western Australia

Gary C Geelhoed and Nicholas H de Klerk

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 500

Spirochaetes and sunshine: leptospirosis in the aftermath of the Queensland floods

Hugh Wright, Katie Goot and Benjamin Rogers

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 500-502

Knowledge and access are not enough: HIV risk and prevention among people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Sydney

Augustine D Asante and Henrike Körner

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 502

The Sydney University Medical Program: highlights and lessons

David A Kandiah

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 503

Clinical focus

The greying intensivist: ageing and medical practice — everyone’s problem

George A Skowronski and Carmelle Peisah

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 505-507 Free

Research

The acute surgical unit as a novel model of care for patients presenting with acute cholecystitis

Lester Pepingco, Guy D Eslick and Michael R Cox

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 509-510 Free

Pancreatic cancer: surgical management and outcomes after 6 years of follow-up

Antony G Speer, Vicky J Thursfield, Yvonne Torn-Broers and Michael Jefford

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 511-515 Free

Colorectal cancer screening in Australia: a community-level perspective

Ryan J Courtney, Christine L Paul, Robert W Sanson-Fisher, Finlay A Macrae, Mariko L Carey, John R Attia and Mark A McEvoy

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 516-520 Free

Barriers to and facilitators of colorectal cancer screening in different population subgroups in Adelaide, South Australia

Sara Javanparast, Paul R Ward, Stacy M Carter and Carlene J Wilson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 521-523 Free

Snapshot

Extensive cystic hydatid disease

Melanie C Figtree, Matthew R Watts, Robyn Timmins, Ross Smith and Bernard J Hudson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 520

Case reports

Brain abscess due to Propionibacterium propionicum in Eisenmenger syndrome

Anthony M T Chau, Lileane L Xu, Jacob M Fairhall, Joga Chaganti and Brendan J McMullan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 525-526

Medical education

Clinical teaching and learning: from theory and research to application

Jennifer J Conn, Fiona R Lake, Geoffrey J McColl, Justin L C Bilszta and Robyn Woodward-Kron

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 527 Free

Reflections

Does it take too long to become a doctor?

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 528-530 Free

Futility and neurotrauma: can we make an objective assessment?

Stephen Honeybul, Kwok M Ho, Grant R Gillett, Christopher R P Lind and Susan O’Hanlon

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 531-533

The lake

Philip A Sprott

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 534-535

Causes and meanings of signs

Sarah J Abrahamson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 535

Correction

Emergency department overcrowding and mortality after the introduction of the 4-hour rule in Western Australia

Gary C Geelhoed and Nicholas H de Klerk

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 500

Careers

Brains and Beyond

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): C1 Free

Dr Adam Wells

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): C2 Free

Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): C5 Free

The End of the Affair

Amanda Bryan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): C6 Free

Looking for a home

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): C8 Free