Editorials

It fits in the palm of your hand

Gerald Moss

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Informed consent – do less, talk more and write it all down

Frank Frizelle

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Original Articles

Determinants of non-communicable diseases in the elderly: the pilot Freemasons health study

Valery Feigin, Craig Anderson, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Jim Mann, Melanie Abas, Derrick Bennett

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A reservoir for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Auckland community?

Simon Briggs, Camilla McGuiness, Michelle Foster, Sally Roberts

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What do general practice patients know about their prescription medications?

Chrystal Jaye, Jason Hope, Isobel Martin

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The Ottawa ankle rules for the use of diagnostic X-ray in after hours medical centres in New Zealand

Simon Wynn-Thomas, Tom Love, Deborah McLeod, Sue Vernall, Marjan Kljakovic, Antony Dowell, John Durham

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Review Article

Hand-held computers in healthcare: what software programs are available?

Wayne Gillingham, Alec Holt, John Gillies

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Viewpoint

Suggestions for improving the monitoring of adverse events following immunization in New Zealand

Matthew Miller, Nikki Turner

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

A bogus doctor

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Medicolegal Diary

Removal of the mandatory reporting provisions – only a Pyrrhic victory?

Jonathan Coates

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 164th Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 15 August 2002

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Abstracts of the NZ Regional Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand, and the RACP, Dunedin, August 2002

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letter

Value of broth cultures in detecting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Sally Roberts, Heather Young, Suzanne Faulkner, Mary Bilkey, Stephanie Eyres, Sue Renshaw, Arthur J Morris

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Obituary

Eric Robert Blakely

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Book Review

Thyroid disorders

Penny Hunt

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