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Volume 215 Issue 11

13 December 2021

Editorial

Goodbye, 2021: a year of triumphs and failures

Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 492-497 Free

Perspective

Policy considerations for mandatory COVID‐19 vaccination from the Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation

Julie Leask, Holly Seale, Jane H Williams, Jessica Kaufman, Kerrie Wiley, Abela Mahimbo, Katrina K Clark, Margie H Danchin and Katie Attwell

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 499-503 Open Access

Medical education

Lessons from practice

Poppy seed tea dependence requiring depot buprenorphine treatment

Shalini Arunogiri, Rowan Dowling, Vicky Phan, Michelle Sharkey, Temika Mu and Dan I Lubman

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 504-505

Lessons from practice

Pill aspiration: an under‐recognised clinical entity

Elliot T Bowden, Paul Smith and Karen M Dwyer

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 505-506

Reflection

Living through a pandemic as an MJA editor and a general practitioner

Aajuli Shukla

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 507-508

Editorials

On entering Australia’s third year with COVID‐19

Stephen J Duckett and Brett Sutton

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 509-510 Free

The implications of living with COVID‐19 for intensive care in Australia

Raymond Raper

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 511-512 Free

Research

Increasing ICU capacity to accommodate higher demand during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Edward Litton, Sue Huckson, Shaila Chavan, Tamara Bucci, Anthony Holley, Evan Everest, Sean Kelly, Steven McGloughlin, Johnny Millar, Nhi Nguyen, Mark Nicholls, Paule Secombe and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 513-517 Free

Guideline summary

Revision of the Australian guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol

Katherine M Conigrave, Robert L Ali, Rebecca Armstrong, Tanya N Chikritzhs, Peter d’Abbs, Mark F Harris, Nicole Hewlett, Michael Livingston, Dan I Lubman, Anne McKenzie, Colleen O’Leary, Alison Ritter, Scott Wilson, Melanie Grimmond and Emily Banks

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 518-524 Open Access

Letters

Towards consistent geographic reporting of Australian health research

Vincent L Versace, Hannah Beks and James Charles

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 525-525

Screening and brief interventions for harmful alcohol use: where to now?

Jana Malinovská and Jan Brož

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 525-525

Screening and brief interventions for harmful alcohol use: where to now?

Chris B Holmwood

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 526-526

Ambulance ramping, system pressure, and hospitals in crisis: what do the data tell us?

Laura M Boyle, Mark Mackay and Keith Stockman

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 526-527

Unnecessary ultrasound imaging in the management of undescended testis

Dharshini Selvarajah, Dermot McDowell, Susan Jehangir and Grahame Smith

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 528-528

Christmas competition

Winner

A guide to the management of atrial fibrillation in Santa Claus

Mark T Mills and David R Warriner

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 529-531 Free

The CRECHE study: testing the urban myth that chocolate Santa Clauses are re‐wrapped Easter Bunnies

Dirk Stengel, Alexander Hönning, Stephan Just, Sven Mutze, Axel Ekkernkamp, Tobias Ohmann, Hajo Haase, Patric Kröpil and Leonie Gölz

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 531-535 Free

“A banana a day keeps wound failure away”: comparing the utility of fruit, pig, and synthetic skins for suturing practice

Geoffrey Murphy, Muhammad A Khan, Adil Lathif and John Preddy

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 536-540 Free

Garlic as a vampire deterrent: fact or fiction?

Evangeline Mantzioris and Philip Weinstein

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 541-543 Free

What is life? (A 2020–21 Victorian lament)

Andrew Huang

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 544-544 Free