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Editorials

Patients' rights and access to unconventional treatment

Grant Gillett

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Resistance to antiplatelet therapy: fact or fiction?

Shen Wong, David Lewis

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Back to the future of healthcare: aetiology-centred medicine

Stephen Genuis

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Original Articles

New Zealand general practitioners' characteristics and workload: The National Primary Medical Care Survey

Antony Raymont, Roy Lay-Yee, Janet Pearson, Peter Davis

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Advertising of medicines on New Zealand television

Pauline Norris, Lucy Nelson, Koal Lin Ling, Lucy Skellett, Joyce Hoo, Cecilia Va’ai, Amber Gates

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New Zealand general practitioners’ views on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines: a qualitative analysis

Ninya Maubach, Janet Hoek

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Does the priority scoring system for joint replacement really identify those in most need?

Brendan Coleman, Stephen McChesney, Bruce Twaddle

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Special Article

Medical practitioners and competition law in Australia and New Zealand

Warren Pengilley

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Case Reports

Prenatal genetic testing: full clinical information is needed

James Harraway

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Sustained supraventricular tachycardia in Ebstein’s anomaly

Paul Grant

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Horner’s syndrome after central venous catheterisation

John Jarvis, Angus Watson, Greg Robertson

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Viewpoints

Providing quality healthcare under funding constraints

Ian Powell

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Responsibility for pharmaceutical company samples

Shane Reti

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Miscellaneous Notes

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 177th meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, 19 May 2005

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Medical Image

Damp Digits

Ben Wilkinson

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Regarding ‘Is PHARMAC’s sole-supply tendering policy harming the health of New Zealanders?’ editorial—with NZMJ response

Ben Gray, Frank Frizelle

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Low back pain and occupation: a response to the article by McBride et al

John Alchin

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Response to ‘Exceptional circumstances and heart transplantation’ letter

Paul Tomlinson, Peter Moodie

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Obituaries

Michael Robert Miles

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Tristram Peter Dennitts Willcox

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David Burke

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Notice

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine / Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health for 2006

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Book Review

Better than well: American medicine meets the American dream (Carl Elliott)

Roger Mulder

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