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Editorials

The few: New Zealand's diminishing number of rural GPs providing maternity services

Don Simmers

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New Zealand’s labour resources in general practice—should we worry?

James Reid

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Original Articles

Vitamin D deficiency in pregnant New Zealand women

Carl Eagleton, Annie Judkins

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Reliability of ultrasound estimation of fetal weight in term singleton pregnancies

Atalie Colman, Dushyant Maharaj, John Hutton, Jeremy Tuohy

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Myotonic dystrophy in Otago, New Zealand

Chris Ford, Alexa Kidd, Graeme Hammond-Tooke

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Erucism in New Zealand: exposure to gum leaf skeletoniser (Uraba lugens) caterpillars in the differential diagnosis of contact dermatitis in the Auckland region

José Derraik

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Case Report

Colitis and bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia—the treatment or the disease?

Oliver Menzies, Barry Colls

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Special Series

Quality improvement in New Zealand healthcare. Part 5: measurement for monitoring and controlling performance—the quest for external accountability

Rod Perkins, Mary Seddon, on behalf of EPIQ

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Notes on cholelithiasis—Case 1

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Medical History

Death due to a stingray barb piercing the heart: a New Zealand case from 1939

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Medical Image

Prandial tussiculation

Amer Ahmad Alkhatib

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

New Zealand Food Safety Authority’s response to the ‘flies, fingers, fomites, and food’ article on campylobacteriosis

Donald Campbell, Steve Hathaway, Peter van der Logt

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Tobacco harm reduction in New Zealand

Murray Laugesen

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Media report of rare rhabdomyolysis cases seems to have triggered reluctance among some New Zealanders to use statins

Patrick Gladding, Andrew Kerr, Colin Edwards

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What a performance—and Response

Roger Ridley-Smith, John Buchanan, Alan Pelkowitz, Mary Seddon

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What is common sense?

Hugh Mann

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Obituaries

George David Abbott

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John Wellesley Evan Raine

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William Reisiswyl Trotter

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Notices

Medical Benevolent Fund

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Mayo Clinic Interactive Surgery Symposium

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Book Reviews

Morbidity, Performance and Quality in Primary Care: Dutch General Practice on Stage (GP Westert, L Jabaaij, FG Schellevis, eds)

Stephen Buetow

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What Seems to be the Trouble? Stories in Illness and Healthcare (Trisha Greenhalgh)

David Cole

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