The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners

NZFP February 2002

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CONTENTS

Prescribing

Prescribing costs – whose responsibility?
Peter Moodie

Finding a better balance between pharmaceutical supply and demand – a medicinal issue
Tim Maling

Opinion and Comment

Editorial: to write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard - Campbell Murdoch

Outlook - News & Events from the RNZCGP

Swamp Rat

Original Scientific Papers

Paediatric prescribing in New Zealand
Jason Hall and Isobel Martin

Repeat prescribing practice in New Zealand
Susan RH Pullon, Lynn C McBain and Susie Allison

Can community service card possession be used to measure need?
Barry Gribben and Felicity Goodyear-Smith

Continuing Medical Education

Asthma, allergy and the hygiene hypothesis
Wendy M McRae and Colin S Wong

Assessing Capacity
Chris Perkins

Interpretation of an elevated serum ferritin
Leanne Berkhan

How the professional mentor works; paradigms and our thinking as GPs – example: anxiety and panic
Peter Parkinson

Cochrane Corner: At last an effective treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding
Bruce Arroll

Issues

Philosophy in general practice: the concept of recognition
Peter Woolford

Journal Review Service

Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Uni