This Issue in the Journal

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

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Editorials

The HPCA Act - back to the future

Tricia Briscoe

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At last - some reasonable comments on informed consent

Grant Gillett

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Adverse events in New Zealand healthcare

John Morton, Shona MacMillan

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Original Articles

Adverse events in New Zealand public hospitals II: preventability and clinical context

Peter Davis, Roy Lay-Yee, Robin Briant, Wasan Ali, Alastair Scott, Stephan Schug

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The characteristics of doctors receiving medical complaints: a cross-sectional survey of doctors in New Zealand

Wayne Cunningham, Raewyn Crump, Andrew Tomlin

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The demographic characteristics of New Zealand medical students: the New Zealand Wellbeing, Intentions, Debt and Experiences (WIDE) Survey of Medical Students 2001 study

Julie Fitzjohn, Tim Wilkinson, Denzil Gill, Roger Mulder

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Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: is it durable?

Steven Yang, Simon Hadlow

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Viewpoints

Informed consent in New Zealand: medical myths

Ron Paterson

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Shame, guilt and the medical practitioner

Wayne Cunningham, Hamish Wilson

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Case Notes

Negative beta hCG: positive ectopic pregnancy

Adrian Skinner, Peter Jones

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Delayed diagnosis of steroid-induced colon diverticulum perforation

Andreas Kouyialis, Damianos Sakas, Efstathios Boviatsis, Nick Maratheftis, Stefanos Korfias

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Medical ethics

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Medical Image

Capsule endoscopy

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Can a patient be informed without also understanding?

Judith Collett

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Antibiotic susceptibility of Haemophilus influenzae isolates from four New Zealand sites

Arthur Morris, Rosemary Ikram, Mark Jones, Ron Leng

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Inappropriate prescription of methylphenidate

Nicholas Cooper

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OOS or MUD: unclear thinking is the problem

Peter Dodwell

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Opponents of DTCA need the objectivity they expect of advertisers

Ian Griffiths

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Obituaries

John Desmond Hunter

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Charles Herbert Thomson

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