This Issue in the Journal

A summary of the original articles featured in this issue

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Editorials

Mental health treatment at the New Zealand GP

James Reid

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Lawyers and letters

Frank Frizelle

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Original Articles

General practitioners’ perceptions of barriers to their provision of mental healthcare: a report on Mental Health and General Practice Investigation (MaGPIe)

The MaGPIe Research Group

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Access to palliative care for people with motor neurone disease in New Zealand

Christine McKenna, Rod MacLeod

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Depression and compliance with treatment in a sample of Northland diabetes patients

Dave Clarke, Tanya Goosen

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A newly recognised cause of vertigo: horizontal canal variant of benign positional vertigo

Jeremy Hornibrook

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Special Article

Clinical indications for the investigation of porphyria: case examples and evolving laboratory approaches to its diagnosis in New Zealand

Christiaan Sies, Christopher Florkowski, Peter George, Howard Potter

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Review Article

Clinical considerations of antidepressant prescribing for older patients

Therése Kairuz, Monica Zolezzi, Antonio Fernando

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Case Reports

Diluting delirium

Michael Croxson, Jennifer Lucas, Warwick Bagg

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Mesalazine-associated acute tubulointerstitial nephritis in a patient with spondylarthropathy

Ismail Sari, Merih Birlik, Caner Cavdar, Sulen Sarioglu, Hale Akpinar, Fatos Onen, Nurullah Akkoc

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Viewpoint

The ownership elephant: ownership and community-governance in primary care

Peter Crampton

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Special Series

Long-acting inhaled bronchodilators for COPD—lack of logic continues

David Jones

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Human instincts, normal and pathological: the moral sense

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Medical Image

Lothario’s Scrotum

Mustafa Secil

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Proposed article for the New Zealand Medical Journal

Matthew McClelland

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Mosquito-borne diseases in New Zealand: has there ever been an indigenously acquired infection?

José Derraik, Terry Maguire

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Obituaries

Alfred Philip Poole

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Andrew James Ogilvy

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Notice

The 17th Hospice NZ Palliative Care and NZ Pain Society Conference: Making a Difference

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