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Editorial

Debates on euthanasia

Sinéad Donnelly

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Original Articles

“I wouldn’t want to become a nuisance under any circumstances”—a qualitative study of the reasons some healthy older individuals support medical practices that hasten death

Phillipa J Malpas, Kay Mitchell, Malcolm H Johnson

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A retrospective review of notified human leptospirosis cases in the Waikato region of New Zealand, 2004 to 2010

George Cowie, Anita Bell

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Phlebotomy patterns in haemochromatosis patients and their contribution to the blood supply

Deborah Walkden, Krishna Badami

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Safety and efficacy of stroke thrombolysis at a secondary provincial hospital in New Zealand

Annemarei Ranta, Calvin Chan, Dorothea Rump, Pietro Cariga

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New Zealand National Acute Stroke Services Audit: acute stroke care delivery in New Zealand

Nicholas Child, John Fink, Shelley Jones, Kevin Voges, Mark Vivian, P Alan Barber

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New Zealand Malayan war veterans’ exposure to dibutylphthalate is associated with an increased incidence of cryptorchidism, hypospadias and breast cancer in their children

Matthew Carran, Ian Shaw

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Viewpoint

Professionalism in its time and place: some implications for medical education

Tim J Wilkinson, MaryLeigh Moore, Eleanor M Flynn

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Clinical Correspondence

Asplenic fulminant sepsis secondary to a dog bite complicated by toxic epidermal necrolysis/Stevens-Johnson syndrome

Ken G Teo, Namrata S Anavekar, Anosha Yazdabadi, Sophie Ricketts

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Medical image. A rare tumour of the chest wall

Anirudh Aron, Alexander Hallock

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Letters

PHARMAC looks great value for money—an Australian perspective

Linda J Cobiac

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No need to ban smoking in cars with children present—it’s almost snuffed out

Marewa Glover, Tim Maifeleni, Ching Jie Yeh, Arita Lee, Dudley Gentles

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PHARMAC's updated guidelines for cost-utility analyses, with new QALYs per $1M metric

Rachel Grocott, Scott Metcalfe

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The operative treatment of goitre

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Obituaries

Rex Livingstone Sinclair

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Patrick William Cotter

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