This Issue in the Journal

A summary of the original articles featured in this issue of the NZMJ

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Editorials

The re-emergence of iodine deficiency in New Zealand?

Jim Mann, Elizabeth Aitken

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Strike action by senior medical staff in Timaru – how did this come about?

John Rietveld

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Small abdominal aortic aneurysms: exclusion or observation?

Tim Buckenham

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Original Articles

Mapping the themes of Maori talk about health

Fiona Cram, Linda Smith, Wayne Johnstone

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Patients’ perception of the adequacy of informed consent: a pilot study of elective general surgical patients in Auckland

Mikayla McKeague, John Windsor

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Symptom complaints following aerial spraying with biological insecticide Foray 48B

Keith Petrie, Mark Thomas, Elizabeth Broadbent

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General practitioners’ perceptions of the nurse practitioner role: an exploratory study

Bev Mackay

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Review Article

The Queenstown Report: proposals for change in the medical disciplinary complaints process

Wayne Cunningham, Murray Tilyard

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Viewpoints

The sorry saga of the statins in New Zealand - pharmacopolitics versus patient care

Evan Begg, Andrew Sidwell, Sharon Gardiner, Gary Nicholls, Russell Scott

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Response from PHARMAC: difficult choices

Peter Moodie, Scott Metcalfe, Wayne McNee

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PHARMAC measures savings elsewhere to the health sector

Scott Metcalfe, Sean Dougherty, Matthew Brougham, Peter Moodie

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Case Notes

Takayasu’s arteritis and ulcerative colitis

Richard Gearry, Peter Carne, Frank Frizelle

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Chronic urethral discharge

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Medical History

The long locum: health propaganda in New Zealand

Derek Dow

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Medical Image

The painted apple moth

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

The influence of consumption of A1 beta-casein on heart disease and Type I diabetes - the authors reply

Murray Laugesen, Robert Elliott

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A1 beta-casein milk and Type 1 diabetes: causal relationship probed in animal models

Fraser W Scott, Hubert Kolb

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Setting the record straight: A1 beta-casein, heart disease and diabetes

Corran McLachlan, Felix Olsson

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A letter of thanks to volunteer health professionals deployed to East Timor

Andrew Dunn, Anne Campbell, David Le Page

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Palliative home care and cost savings: encouraging results from Italy

Serena Di Cosimo, Giorgio Pistillucci, Gianluigi Ferretti, Alessia Cicchetti, Mario Leggio, Nicola Silvestris, Cecilia Moro, Mario Mandala, Giuseppe Curigliano, Benito Battigaglia, Giuseppe Di Chio, Salvatore Cirignotta, Modesto D’Aprile

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Diabetes and deprivation: a small area study in Te Tairawhiti

Frank Houghton, Bruce Duncan

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Medicolegal

Medical discipline - conduct unbecoming

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Obituary

Patrick Philip Eric Savage

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Book Review

Patient drug facts 2003

Murray Barclay

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