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Editorial

The impact of complaints on medical professionalism in New Zealand

Wayne Cunningham

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Original Articles

Representative case series from public hospital admissions 1998 II: surgical adverse events

Robin Briant, John Morton, Roy Lay-Yee, Peter Davis, Wasan Ali

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Prioritisation of elective surgery in New Zealand: The Reliability Study

Carolyn Doughty, Andrew MacCormick, Justin Roake, John Fraser, Phil Hider, Ray Kirk, Bryan Parry, Andre van Rij, Jean-Claude Theis

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Using quality-of-life instruments to measure outcome after laparoscopic fundoplication

Gerard Bonnet, Mohammad Imran Khan, Lee Ong

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Overseas-trained doctors’ evaluation of a New Zealand course in professional development

Susan Hawken

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Case Reports

Lead poisoning due to ingestion of Indian herbal remedies

Anne Roche, Christopher Florkowski, Trevor Walmsley

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Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis with a negative transesophageal echocardiogram

Greg Frazer, Richard Laing, Duncan Lamont

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Viewpoints

‘Doing the right thing’ after an adverse event

Marie Bismark, Ron Paterson

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Where to now with programmes for overseas-trained doctors?

Susan Hawken

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Special Series

Sole supply of influenza vaccine: economic common sense or a disaster waiting to happen?

Tim Blackmore

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Human instincts, normal and pathological: the maternal instinct

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Medical Image

Metal bezoar

Rafet Kaplan, Fatih Celebi, Deniz Güzey, Aysun Simsek Celik, Fazilet Erözgen, Necattin Firat

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

PHARMAC’s response to Tim Blackmore on the sole supply of influenza vaccine

Wayne McNee, Peter Moodie, Sarah Schmitt, Andrea Dick

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PHARMAC responds to Richard Milne on discounting health benefits and costs

Scott Metcalfe, Matthew Brougham, Peter Moodie, Rachel Grocott

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Vitamin D deficiency and muscle weakness in the elderly

Ronu Ghose

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Medicolegal

Researched Medicines Industry (RMI) Code of Practice complaints 2004

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Book Reviews

Recent Advances in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (Volume 23; JN Cashman and RM Grounds, eds)

Edward Shipton

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Top Tips in Anaesthesia (Tom Perris and Scott Brudney, eds)

Edward Shipton

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A Unique Nursing Group: New Zealand Army Nurse Anaesthetists of WW1 (Richard Rawstron)

Alice Silverson

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