This Issue in the Journal

A summary of the original articles featured in this issue of the NZMJ

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Editorials

Improvement in outcome of rectal cancer in New Zealand

Frank Frizelle

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Giving emergency advice over the telephone: it can be done safely and consistently

Geoffrey Hughes

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Original Articles

A telephone advice line does not decrease the number of presentations to Christchurch Emergency Department, but does decrease the number of phone callers seeking advice

David Graber, Michael Ardagh, Paul O’Donovan, Ian St George

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Problems with damp and cold housing among Pacific families in New Zealand

Sarnia Butler, Maynard Williams, Colin Tukuitonga, Janis Paterson

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Complications of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography

Dinesh Lal, Mark Lane, Philip Wong

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Transport services under stress: patient air transfers due to industrial action in Christchurch

Peter Dzendrowskyj, David Bowie, Geoffrey Shaw

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Case Report

One name to rule them all, one name to find them: Lord of the Rings and ‘seated immobility thromboembolism (SIT) syndrome’

Richard Beasley , Patricia Heuser , Matt Masoli

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Viewpoint

Making a diagnosis of pulmonary embolism - new methods and clinical issues

Stephen Iles, Lutz Beckert, Martin Than, Ian Town

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Case Notes

Lignocaine neurotoxicity following fibre-optic bronchoscopy

Karl Rodins, Michael Hlavac, Lutz Beckert

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The disease of the mind

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Medical Image

Pulmonary embolism with cavity formation, spontaneous pneumothorax, and high-output air leak in a patient with non-small-cell lung cancer

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Prostate cancer screening stretches services and offers little benefit to patients - and Response

Paul Corwin, Peter Davidson

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Public understandings of bacteria, antibiotics and resistance

Pauline Norris, Emily Toner, Karen Morris

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Obituary

Ernst Karl Willi Wilzek

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Book Reviews

The rise and fall of a scientific genius: the forgotten story of Royal Raymond Rife. Part one: Rife’s rise (video)

Randall Allardyce

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Cataract surgery, Andrew Coombes and David Gartry

Mark Elder

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