This Issue in the Journal

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

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Editorials

Festina lente: the road to prevention of death by suicide

Sunny Collings

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Withholding and withdrawing therapy: humanity, human rights and access to renal dialysis

Justin Roake

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Original Articles

Access to dialysis in New Zealand renal services

John Collins, Patricia Metcalf

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Unlocking the numerator-denominator bias III: adjustment ratios by ethnicity for 1981-1999 mortality data. The New Zealand Census-Mortality Study

Shilpi Ajwani, Tony Blakely, Bridget Robson, June Atkinson, Cindy Kiro

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Cellular telephone use and time trends for brain, head and neck tumours

Angus Cook, Alistair Woodward, Neil Pearce, Cara Marshall

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Improving outpatient department efficiency: a randomized controlled trial comparing hospital and general-practice telephone reminders

Shane Reti

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Doctors whose competence has been reviewed under the Medical Practitioners Act 1995

Ian St George

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Review Articles

Suicide in New Zealand I: time trends and epidemiology

Annette Beautrais

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Suicide in New Zealand II: a review of risk factors and prevention

Annette Beautrais

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Case Report

Patient misinformation and wrong-site surgery

Richard Peterson

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Case Notes

Relapsing polychondritis - an unusual but potentially treatable cause of cognitive impairment

Ian Hosford, John Glass, Norris Baker

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Venesection

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Personal View

Coping with severe acute respiratory syndrome: a personal view of the good, the bad and the ugly

John Gommans

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Medical Image

Detection of Down’s syndrome

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

What is the cost of healthcare in New Zealand?

Tricia Briscoe

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Variations from ‘equity’ in referred services expenditure - and Response

James Harris, Michael Rains, Laurence Malcolm

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Obituary

Geoffrey Orchard

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Notice

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine: Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health

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Book Review

MCQs in Psychiatry, David McNamara

Roger Mulder

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