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Editorial

Get the learning environment right and the facts will look after themselves

Tim Wilkinson

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Original Articles

For better or worse: role models for New Zealand house officers

Rosemary Wyber, Tony Egan

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How many health professionals does a patient see during an average hospital stay?

Naomi Whitt, Richard Harvey, Stephen Child

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Procedural and examination skills of first-year postgraduate doctors do not improve with clinical experience alone

Iwona Stolarek

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Procedural and examination skills of first-year house surgeons: a comparison of a simulation workshop versus 6 months of clinical ward experience alone

Iwona Stolarek

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Doctors, practices, patients, and their problems during usual hours: a description of rural and non-rural primary care in New Zealand in 2001–2002

Phil Hider, Roy Lay-Yee, Peter Davis

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Case Reports

Profound hypokalaemia secondary to a large rectosigmoid villous tumour

Steve Kelly, Peter Lee, Greg Robertson

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Efficacy of steroids in preventing cutaneous heparin-related allergic reactions in patients requiring anticoagulation

Rosita Caponetti, Gianpiero Gravante, Tania Caponetti, Patrizio Aloisio, Aldo Fierro

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Viewpoint

Issues in implementing a real competency-based training and assessment system

Kathleen Callaghan, Graham Hunt, John Windsor

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Presidential Address: Public Health Department

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Medical Image

Advanced oesophageal cancer complicated with tracheoesophageal fistula and aspiration pneumonia

Sheng-Hsiang Lin, Tsu-Tuan Wu

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Burns treatment in New Zealand: another response to Patricia Holborow’s letter on saline baths for burns patients

Richard Wong She

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Taxation of New Zealand doctors

Roger Ridley-Smith

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The first Grand Round presentation: an original poem

David Richmond

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Obituaries

Athol Maurice Abrahams

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Noeline Lillian Beatrice Walker

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Notice

Heart Foundation Grants Awarded April 2007

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Erratum

Risk factors and characteristics of patients with gonorrhoea presenting to Auckland Sexual Health Service, New Zealand

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Book Review

The other side of medicine (Peter Tate)

Peter Moller

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