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Editorial

Medical opportunity of special scale? The future of rural hospitals in New Zealand?

J Campbell Murdoch

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Original Articles

Fatal dog bites in New Zealand

David Healey

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Murine typhus: a newly recognised problem in the Waikato region of New Zealand

Erana Gray, Polly Atatoa-Carr, Anita Bell, Sally Roberts, Daud Al Mudallal, Graham D Mills

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Routine 'Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for elderly people' (HoNOS65+) collection in an acute psychogeriatric inpatient unit in New Zealand

Gary Cheung, John Strachan

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Heracleum mantegazzianum and Toxicodendron succedaneum: plants of human health significance in New Zealand and the National Pest Plant Accord

José G B Derraik

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Special Article

Rural hospital medicine in New Zealand: vocational registration and the recognition of a new scope of practice

Garry Nixon, Katharina Blattner, for the NZ Rural Hospital Doctors Working Party

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Review Article

New hospital consultant: surviving a difficult period

Geoffrey Robinson, Johan Morreau, Marion Leighton, Richard Beasley

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Case Reports

Phytophotodermatitis caused by contact with a fig tree (Ficus carica)

José G B Derraik, Marius Rademaker

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Three students exposed to Uraba lugens (gum leaf skeletoniser) caterpillars in a West Auckland school

José G B Derraik

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Caesarean section for obstructed labour

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Medical Image

What is wrong with my right arm and leg?

Rayid Abdulqawi, Khaled Ashawesh, Piers Newman

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Cheaper than chicken: protein foods ranked by supermarket prices

Nick Wilson, Carolyn Watts, Osman Mansoor, Gabrielle Jenkin, Michael Baker

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Self-applied treatment of persistent plantar wart with 5% imiquimod cream

Cheng-Mee Leong, Jane Tarbotton, Merilyn Hibma

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Normal vaginal deliveries

Sheryl Wright

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Prevalence of new and known diabetes mellitus, impaired glucose tolerance, and impaired fasting glucose

Chris M Florkowski, Don W Beaven

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PHARMAC’s funding of 9 weeks Herceptin: many assumptions in a high-risk decision

Richard J Isaacs, Christopher M Frampton, Marion J J Kuper-Hommel

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Criticism of the decision not to fund the HPV vaccine for pre-adolescent females in New Zealand, and Response

Dynes McConnell, Stewart Reid, Nikki Turner, Helen Petousis-Harris, Natalie Desmond, Hazel Lewis

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Obituaries

Richard Nichols Akel

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Philip Matthews Goodrich

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Geoffrey Noel Ferner

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Book Reviews

False hope: bone marrow transplantation for breast cancer (Richard Rettig, Peter Jacobson, Cynthia Farquhar, Wade Aubry)

Mark Jeffery

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Differential diagnosis of internal medicine (Walter Siegenthaler)

Barry M Colls

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White Gujaratis: Bramwell and Dorothy Cook (H Bramwell Cook)

Kelvin Lynn

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