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Editorials

Angry young men, interpersonal violence, alcohol, and broken faces

Leslie Snape

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Optimal management of chronic gout: attempting to render the (t)issues crystal-clear

Min Loke Wong

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Endometriosis: a gynaecological and colorectal disease

Richard Perry

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Original Articles

Maxillofacial fractures at Waikato Hospital, New Zealand: 1989 to 2000

Jessica Buchanan, Angus Colquhoun, Lara Friedlander, Brian Whitley, Steve Evans, Murray Thomson

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Non-resident orthopaedic admissions to Dunedin Hospital, New Zealand: 1997 to 2004

David Gwynne Jones

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Are snowboarders more likely to damage their spines than skiers? Lessons learned from a study of spinal injuries from the Otago skifields in New Zealand

Simon Donald, David Chalmers, Jean-Claude Theis

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Benzbromarone therapy in management of refractory gout

Sunil Kumar, Jennifer Ng, Peter Gow

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Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma in New Zealand: a prospective intent-to-treat analysis

Yuhji Marui, John McCall, Edward Gane, Andrew Holden, David Duncan, Mee-Ling Yeong, Kai Chow, Stephen Munn

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Case Reports

Endometriosis-induced acute small and large bowel obstruction: rare clinical entities

Rabih Chaer, Albert Sam II, Miguel Teresi, Jose Cintron

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Biliary peritonitis due to fistulous tract rupture following a T-tube removal

George Sakorafas, Vania Stafyla, Gregory Tsiotos

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Rectus sheath haematoma (RSH) mimicking acute intra-abdominal pathology

Mohammad Imran Khan, Osman Medhat, Octavian Popescu, Amit Rastogi, Tom Thompson

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Self-setting apparatus for intercepting and automatically rejecting contaminated rainwater

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Medical Image

A Big Sack

Michael McKewen

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

PHARMAC and tobacco control in New Zealand: two licensed funded options are already available (with responses by Holt et al and the Editor)

Scott Metcalfe, Peter Moodie, Wayne McNee, Shaun Holt, Matire Harwood, Sarah Aldington, Richard Beasley, Frank Frizelle

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PHARMAC responds to the RMI’s editorial

Peter Moodie, Wayne McNee

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Quality use of medicines activities: QSUM and PHARMAC

June Tordoff, Pauline Norris, Julia Kennedy, David Reith

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Response to Maubach and Hoek’s paper on GP attitudes to DTCA

Les Toop, Dee Richards, Tony Dowell, Janet Hoek, Ninya Maubach

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Animal and vegetable fats, and Coronary Heart Disease

Don Money

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Postnatal exercise: the mother’s wellbeing is important too

Carolyn Jenkins, Phil Handcock, Lisette Burrows

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Prenatal testing for aneuploidy in New Zealand: time for action

Peter Stone

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Memories of Dr Verney Cable

Roger Ridley-Smith

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Medicolegal

Sexual Misconduct (05/125C)

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Obituaries

Keith Graham Murray

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Allan Gordon Cumming

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Brian Morrison Corkill

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Notice

Christian Healthcare Trust Study Award in Geriatric Care

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Book Reviews

Swanson’s Family Practice Review (5th Edition; AF Tallia, DA Cardone, DF Howarth, KH Ibsen, eds)

Jim Reid

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How to Treat Yearbook 2004 (Australian Doctor)

Jim Reid

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