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Editorials

The future of rural general practice in New Zealand

Martin London

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Primary healthcare in New Zealand—the measuring of health

James Reid

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Original Articles

New Zealand Rural General Practitioners 1999 Survey—Part 2: gender issues

Ron Janes, Raina Elley, Anthony Dowell

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New Zealand Rural General Practitioners 1999 Survey—Part 3: rural general practitioners speak out

Ron Janes, Anthony Dowell

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Linking primary and secondary healthcare databases in New Zealand

Andrew Tomlin, Jason Hall

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Antimicrobial susceptibility among Neisseria gonorrhoeae in New Zealand in 2002

Helen Heffernan, Mike Brokenshire, Rosemary Woodhouse, Anne MacCarthy, Tim Blackmore

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Pregnancy loss rate following routine genetic amniocentesis at Wellington Hospital

Michel Sangalli, Fali Langdana, Claire Thurlow

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Viewpoint

What makes a good performance indicator? Devising primary care performance indicators for New Zealand

Peter Crampton, Roshan Perera, Sue Crengle, Antony Dowell, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Robin Kearns, Tom Love, Bev Sibthorpe, Margaret Southwick

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Case Notes

Treatment of Machado-Joseph disease with trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole following successful desensitisation

Jacob Ablin, Nino Elgan

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The treatment of gonorrhoea by argyrol

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Medical Image

Fish fancier's disease?

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Key arguments for increasing New Zealand’s health development assistance in the Pacific

Nick Wilson, Osman Mansoor, George Thomson

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AIDS in New Zealand

Susan Morpeth, Stephen Chambers

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Diabetes mellitus: an under-recognised health problem in New Zealand

Frank Chen, Christopher Florkowski, Marion Dever, Donald Beaven

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New cervical screening legislation: access to clinical records

Hazel Lewis

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Medicolegal

Medical Discipline – Fraud Conviction

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Medical Discipline – Alternative Medicine

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Obituary

Sydney Ronald Arthur Ayling

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Notice

Richard Stewart Scholarship

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Erratum

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a report of two cases occurring during menstruation

Robert Slight, Ali Asgar Behranwala, Onyekwelu Nzewi, Rajesh Sivaprakasam, Edward Brackenbury and Pankaj Mankad

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Book Review

Effective Writing for Health Professionals: a Practical Guide to Getting Published

Megan-Jane Johnstone (reviewed by Andrew Hill)

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