Editorial

The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Bill

Frank Frizelle

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Original Articles

Endoscopic injection therapy for non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding at Auckland Hospital

Ravinder Ogra, Mark Lane, Phillip Wong, Alan Fraser

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The emergence of amphetamine use in New Zealand: findings from the 1998 and 2001 National Drug Surveys

Chris Wilkins, Krishna Bhatta, Sally Casswell

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Delay in seeking medical care for self-detected breast symptoms in New Zealand women

Geraldine Meechan, John Collins, Keith Petrie

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The management and outcome of occluded haemodialysis access: a retrospective audit

Maha Yehia, Maree McDonald, Robert Walker

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Viewpoints

Time to revisit Ashburton? Junior hospital doctor employment in New Zealand 1985–2002

Canterbury District Health Board RMO Advisory Committee, Stephen Child

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Response from the NZ Resident Doctors' Association

Alma Rae, for the NZRDA

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Response from an RMO

John Jarvis

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Branch of the British Medical Association

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the Scientific Meeting of the Christchurch Medical Research Society, Friday 1 November 2002

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Folic acid fortification of foodstuffs

Joanne Dixon, Lyall Thurston

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The Otago Medical School pre-clinical curriculum

David Perez

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Obituary

Brian George Hay

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Book Review

Contagion, Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker

Tim Blackmore

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