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Volume 202 Issue 2

2 February 2015

Economics and health — how does 2015 look?

Stephen Leeder

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 59 Free

Editorials

Cancer control is not beyond us … but could be if we don't invest wisely

David C Currow and Sanchia Aranda

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 63 Free

Peer review: maintaining trust in research funding decisions

Warwick P Anderson

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 65 Free

News

From The Cochrane Library

Fuelling the debate on e-cigarettes

Steve McDonald and Tari Turner

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 66 Free

News

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 66-67 Free

Perspectives

Copayments and the evidence-base paradox

Michael Keane

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 68-69 Free

The Sydney siege: courage, compassion and connectedness

Beverley Raphael and Penelope Burns

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 70-71 Free

Patient safety in primary care: more data and more action needed

Lesley M Russell and Paresh Dawda

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 72-73

Medical cannabis: time for clear thinking

David G Penington

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 74-75

Letters

Doctors' knowledge of the law on withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment

Nicholas D Buckmaster and Mark Forbes

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 77

Doctors' knowledge of the law on withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment

Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Colleen Cartwright, Malcolm H Parker and Gail Williams

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 77

Meeting end-of-life care needs for patients in custody

Megan Kendall, Luke Streitberg and Michael H Levy

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 77-78

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation — time for a change in the paradigm?

Diana Egerton-Warburton

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 78

Sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma: an important risk-stratification tool

Samuel S Zagarella, Michael Sladden, Catalin Popescu and Michael Bigby

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 78

Sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma: an important risk-stratification tool

David E Gyorki and Michael A Henderson

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 79

Severe alkali burns from beer line cleaners warrant mandatory safety guidelines

Annette K Hoskin, Stephen J Dain and David A Mackey

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 79

Characteristics, management and outcomes of chemical eye injuries in Victoria

Bob Z Wang, Elsie Chan, Jill Keeffe, Kathy Fotis and Carmel Crock

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 79-80

The name at the head of the bed

Frank R Jones

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 80

Clinical focus

Financial capacity in older adults: a growing concern for clinicians

Paul A Gardiner, Gerard J Byrne, Leander K Mitchell and Nancy A Pachana

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 82-85 Free

Research

Factors affecting general practitioner charges and Medicare bulk-billing: results of a survey of Australians

Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Patricia Kenny, Marion R Haas and Jane P Hall

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 87-90 Free

Anticholinergic burden in older women: not seeing the wood for the trees?

Lynne Parkinson, Parker J Magin, Allison Thomson, Julie E Byles, Gillian E Caughey, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Danijela Gnjidic, Sarah N Hilmer, Thomas King Tong Lo, Colin McCowan, Rachael Moorin and C Dimity Pond

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 91-94 Free

The Australian Medical Schools Assessment Collaboration: benchmarking the preclinical performance of medical students

Deborah A O’Mara, Ben J Canny, Imogene P Rothnie, Ian G Wilson, John Barnard and Llewelyn Davies

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 95-98 Free

Case reports

Lessons from practice

Vasculitis or fibromuscular dysplasia?

Michelle C Papandony, Sharmayne RE Brady and Tai-Juan Aw

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 100-101 Free

Ethics and law

Treatment for gender dysphoria in children: the new legal, ethical and clinical landscape

Malcolm K Smith and Ben Mathews

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 102-104 Free

Reflections

Best of Best

Thanks for the ride, Gough

John B Best

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 106-107

The MJA, MDA National, Nossal Global Health Prize

The world I want — a world with less diabetes

Alicia Jenkins

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 108-109 Free

Poem

Plainsong for a daughter III

Jacinta Le Plastrier

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): 107 Free

Careers

Seeing the big picture

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): C1 Free

Calendar of events

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (2): C3 Free