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Editorials

Hip fracture management in New Zealand—we need to do better

Geoffrey Horne

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Fees in primary care

James Reid

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Fees reviews of New Zealand general practices—a New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) perspective

Peter Foley

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Original Articles

Older patients with hip fractures: evaluation of a long-term specialist orthopaedic medicine service in their outcomes

John Thwaites, Fazal Mann, Nigel Gilchrist, John McKie, Richard Sainsbury

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Management of scleroderma in a New Zealand tertiary rheumatology centre: emphasis on pulmonary complications

Kristine Ng, Peter Gow

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Exploring general practitioner identification and management of psychosocial Yellow Flags in acute low back pain

Cameron Crawford, Kathleen Ryan, Edward Shipton

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Practitioners, patients, and their visits: a description of accident and medical (A&M) clinics in New Zealand, 2001/2

Phil Hider, Roy Lay-Yee, Peter Davis

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Case Reports

Rat-bite fever: a cautionary tale

Renukadas Sakalkale, Chris Mansell, Deborah Whalley, Kim Wisnewski-Smith, David Harte, Paul Reeve

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Brainstem lesions presenting with nausea and vomiting

Ian Rosemergy, Stuart Mossman

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Viewpoint

Folic acid and neural tube defects in New Zealand: a cautionary tale?

Joanne Dixon

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

A case of cerebellar haemorrhage

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Medical Image

Arthritis and macroglossia

Varun Dhir, Skanda Shukla, Nigil Haroon, Amit Kumar Chowhan, Amita Aggarwal

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

General Practice Fees Review Committees

Bill Douglas

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Why is there a decreasing retention of New Zealand junior doctors?

Malcolm Lowe

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Obituary

Vincent Trevor Eardly Fernando

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Notice

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health for 2008

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Erratum

Complete reference ranges for pulmonary function tests from a single New Zealand population

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Book Reviews

Adverse Reactions: The Fenoterol Story (Neil Pearce)

Evan Begg

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Essential Clinical Procedures (2nd edition; RW Dehn, DP Asprey)

Tim Wilkinson

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