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Editorials

Future hospital trends in New Zealand

Gary Jackson, Harry Rea

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English language difficulties at general practices in Auckland, New Zealand: a major limitation to good practice

Ben Gray

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Peer review of NZMJ articles: issues raised after publication of the viewpoint article on Janet Frame

Frank A Frizelle

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Original Articles

Trends in hospital bed utilisation in New Zealand 1989 to 2006: more or less beds in the future?

Laurence Malcolm

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Frequency and effects of non-English consultations in New Zealand general practice

Andy Wearn, Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Hans Everts, Peter Huggard

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The accuracy of ethnicity data in primary care

Dale Bramley, Sandy Latimer

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General practice rotations for post graduate year 1 and 2 house officers—how feasible?

Dale Sheehan, John H Thwaites, Irene Byrne

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Passing the buck: clinical handovers at a tertiary hospital

Lloyd McCann, Karina McHardy, Stephen Child

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A New Zealand outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis linked to the consumption of imported raw Korean oysters

Greg Simmons, Claire Garbutt, Joanne Hewitt, Gail Greening

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Case Reports

An iatrogenic complication of closed tube thoracostomy for penetrating chest trauma

Syed Amer H Andrabi, Syed Imran H Andrabi, Muhammad Mansha, Muhammad Ahmed

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Suspected lymphocytic hypophysitis in a man

Elham Reda

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Viewpoint

Post stroke fatigue—where is the evidence to guide practice?

Suzanne Barker-Collo, Valery L Feigin, Margaret Dudley

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Two cases of perforated gastric ulcer: operation—recovery (case 2)

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Medical Images

Intestinal neurofibromatosis

Anastasios Koulaouzidis, Shivaram Bhat, Mohammed Haris, John Moschos, Musa Kaleem, Barry D Linaker

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Brucellar spondylitis (Pedro Pons’ sign)

Oguz Karabay, Kamil Gurel, Ocal Sirmatel, Fatma Sirmatel

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

The real cost of smoking: ASH's response to Eric Crampton's editorial

Ben Youdan

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Taxes for health: the argument is more about health than economics

Richard Edwards, Nick Wilson, Osman Mansoor

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Author responds to criticism of her 'Did Janet Frame have high-functioning autism?' viewpoint article

Sarah Abrahamson

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Janet Frame and autism

Hilary Stace

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"Diagnosis by mail": a response to the viewpoint article on Janet Frame

Bill Tramposch

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Home is where the heart is—most of the time

Michael Baker, Michael Keall, Ee Lyn Au, Philippa Howden-Chapman

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The development of guidelines for handling samples and specimens collected for research involving Māori

Elizabeth H Cunningham, Vicky A Cameron, John Evans, Virginia Irvine, Suzanne Pitama, Paul Robertson

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Obituaries

Edward (Ted) Litton Telford Harding

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Robert (Bob) George Mathieson

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Erratum

Ethnic differences in the prevalence of new and known diabetes mellitus, impaired glucose tolerance, and impaired fasting glucose. Diabetes Heart and Health Survey (DHAH) 2002–2003, Auckland New Zealand

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Book Review

Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Doctors: reflections from the wards (Kathy Feest, Karen Forbes)

Tim Wilkinson

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