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Editorials

So why are New Zealand-trained doctors leaving?

A Craig Lynch

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Altruism and the unmeasured effects of medical student loans

Tim J Wilkinson

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New Zealand medical school teaching and surgical training

Stephen D Mark

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Original Articles

Factors influencing the departure of non-consultant hospital doctors from Christchurch, New Zealand

John Morton, Phil Hider, Karen Schaab

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Which psycho-demographic factors predict a doctor’s intention to leave New Zealand general practice?

Ewan D McComb

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Female medical students may accrue less student loan debt than their male colleagues in New Zealand

Karina M McHardy, Anna Janssen, Phillippa J Poole

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Interns’ assessment and management of three common urological conditions: a survey of their knowledge and skills. Are they adequately prepared for clinical practice?

Eric Chung, Philip Sprott

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Patient dissatisfaction recorded in hospital notes in New Zealand: their occurrence and pattern

Peter Davis, Roy Lay-Yee, Robin Briant

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Clinical Correspondence

A rare cause of post-partum headache: cerebral tuberculomas

Steven Thrupp, Chris Furneaux, Mark Kennedy, Nicole McGrath

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Drug-eluting stent implantation for radial artery graft aorta-ostial stenosis

Ewan McKay, Kathryn A Ramsdale, David R Ramsdale

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Medical image. Silicosis due to denim sandblasting: multidetector CT findings

Metin Akgun, Mecit Kantarci, Omer Araz, Elif Yilmazel Ucar, Arzu Mirici

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Medical image. The ‘split’ brain

Smita Negi, Aashish Anand, Guha Krishnaswamy

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Aphasic teen

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the Waikato Clinical School Research Seminar, Wednesday 9 April 2008

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Why New Zealand is so chronically short of doctors

John Marks

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More on suicide

Roger M Ridley-Smith

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Electroconvulsive therapy and electrocardiograph changes

Seshasayee Narasimhan

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Supporting pregnant women to become smokefree

Stephanie Cowan

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World No Tobacco Day (31 May 2008): New Zealand first No Tobacco country in the world—can we share a vision?

Roland Meyer

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Medicolegal

Professional Misconduct (Med06/28D)

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Professional Misconduct (Med06/48P)

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Obituary

Robert Gair Macdonald

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Book Reviews

The Weeping Willow: encounters with grief (Lynne Halamish, Doron Hermoni)

Kate Grundy

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Next to Nothing: a firsthand account of one teenager's experience with an eating disorder (Carrie Arnold, B Timothy Walsh)

Geoff Buckett

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