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Editorials

When does a specialist assume the “duty of care” for a patient? The significance of Case 04HDC13909

Frank Frizelle

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Improving the use and interpretation of diagnostic tests in pulmonary embolism

Sarah Aldington, Geoffrey Robinson, Richard Beasley

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Original Articles

The role of CT pulmonary angiography in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism admitted to general medicine

Paul Chin, Mike Hurrell, David McGregor, Lutz Beckert

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Aggressive acts by patients against general practitioners in New Zealand: one-year prevalence

Christopher Gale, Bruce Arroll, John Coverdale

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Psychosocial variables as prognostic factors in metastatic cancer: a brief review

Claire Paton, David Perez

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Using the COPE assessment tool with informal carers of people with dementia in New Zealand

Helen Roud, Sally Keeling, Richard Sainsbury

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Atypical antipsychotic use for adult outpatients in New Zealand’s Auckland and Northland regions

Amanda Wheeler

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Case Reports

Quetiapine and citalopram: aetiological significances in serotonin syndrome

Karl Marlowe, Dorothea Schirgel

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Spontaneous recovery in a case of Miller-Fisher syndrome presenting as polyneuritis cranialis

Subhasis Roy Chowdhury, Partha Chakraborty, Shounak Majumdar, Dipanjan Bandyopadhyay, Ananya Chattopadhyay, Krishna Basu

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Viewpoint

Electroconvulsive therapy in New Zealand: terrifying or electrifying?

Pamela Melding

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Special Series

Quality improvement in healthcare in New Zealand. Part 1: what would a high-quality healthcare system look like?

Mary Seddon on behalf of EPIQ

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Sacral teratoma

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Proceedings

Proceedings of Health Research Society of Canterbury's AGM and Scientific Meeting, Wednesday 14 June 2006

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Proceedings of the 183rd Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 6 July 2006

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Medical Image

A fragile adolescent

Jubbin Jacob, Suceena Alexander, Nihal Thomas

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Roche responds to the ‘Herceptin or deception’ article—and response by the article’s author

Svend Petersen, Martin Rosevear

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Breast Cancer Advocacy Coalition responds to the ‘Herceptin or deception’ article—and response by the article’s author

Elisabeth Burgess, Martin Rosevear

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Response to Frank Frizelle's editorial on the RMOs' strike

Derek Snelling

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Tyranny of democracies

Chris Wainwright

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Cost of procedures on the New Zealand Mobile Surgical Bus—and response

John Dunn, Stuart Gowland

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Long-acting beta agonists—prescribe with care

Julian Crane

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Notice

Medical Benevolent Fund

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Book Review

An Introduction to Chinese Herbal Medicine: with Particular Reference to the Chinese Umbelliferae (Mark Wright)

Cheuk-Kit Wong

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