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Editorials

Pay attention [to the road] or pay the price

Alistair Woodward, Jamie Hosking, Shanthi Ameratunga

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Blood safety

Sarah Mant, Mark P Smith

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Original Articles

Bacterial contamination of platelet concentrates produced in New Zealand

Michelle Dickson, Dorothy Dinesh

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A tale of two cities: paradoxical intensity of traffic calming around Auckland schools

Timothy Hopgood, Teuila Percival, Joanna Stewart, Shanthi Ameratunga

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The San Francisco Syncope Rule performs well in a regional rural emergency department in New Zealand

Andrew Munro, Rosie Whittaker

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The high volume debate in a low volume country: centralisation of oesophageal resection in New Zealand

Edwin Beenen, Welson Jao, Grant Coulter, Ross Roberts

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Reduction mammaplasty and resource allocation—are patients being treated fairly? An examination of the current New Zealand situation, and looking towards the future

Eloise E Dickie, Jeremy W Simcock

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Murine typhus and leptospirosis presenting with undifferentiated symptoms of an acute febrile illness to Waikato Hospital, New Zealand, 2009–2010

James Irwin, Deon Tredoux, Graham Mills

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Viewpoint

Is it time to advocate for a vulnerable road user protection law in New Zealand?

Harold Weiss, Aimee Ward

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Clinical Correspondence

Duck shooting injuries in Southland, New Zealand

Martin Watts, Ian Densie

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Lead poisoning from Ayurvedic medicines

Rayji S Tsutsui, Johan Van Schalkwyk, David Spriggs

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Medical image. The lady who lost her marbles—food for thought

Andrew J Ing, Shi Jane Pang, Grant Coulter

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Medical image. Mediastinal air-fluid level with substernal pain

Prem P Gupta, Rohtas Yadav, Dipti Agarwal, Krishan B Gupta

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Letters

Alcohol-related injuries requiring surgery

Shiva M Nair, Prabal Mishra, Stuart McLennan, Joon Lee, Chang-Hao Tsao, Leo Anthony Celi

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Cancellations on the day of elective gynaecological surgery: the Counties Manukau experience

Tom K M Wang, Chinthaka B Samaranayake, Sarah Tout

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Nutritional balance of ANZAC’s military rations

Jose Perezgonzalez

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Assessing preoperative nerve damage is the best predictor of outcome following carpal tunnel surgery

Bruce Peat

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Down syndrome: the notion of expert

Danielle Davies

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No smoker left behind—a policy mix for everyone

Sylvia M Giles, Bruce Arroll, Ben Youdan

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FIZZ: a new advocacy group to FIght Sugar in Soft-drinks

Gerhard Sundborn, Simon Thornley, Rod Jackson

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Wellington Hospital: a thriving institution

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 216th Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Wednesday 1 May 2013

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Obituaries

Peter James Francis Foley

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John Moore Tweed

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