The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners

Volume 31, No. 2, April 2004

NZFP April 2004

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CONTENTS

Pain

The pain of it all
  Rod MacLeod

Persistent pain in older adults– we can do better!
  Keela A Herr

Lowback pain management in primary care
  Bronwyn Thompson

Opinion and Comment

Editorial
Tony Townsend 

Swamp Rat

Original Scientific Papers

What is good general practice? Three different views
Steven Lillis

Asian language school student and primary care patient responses to a screening tool detecting concerns about risky lifestyle behaviours
Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Bruce Arroll and Samson Tse

Continuing Medical Education

Migraine: Some answers to some challenging questions
  Lynette Murdoch

Management of inflammatory joint disease
  Terry Macedo

Mainlyon morphine and methadone and pain in palliative care in New Zealand in 2004
  Carol McAllum and Bruce Foggo

Info POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters

Cochrane Corner: Practical evidence-based internet resources
  Bruce Arroll

Issues

Assessing performance 2: How should the underperforming doctor be identified?
  Ian M St George

Reflections

Patient-Physician Relationship, III
  Joel H Merenstein

Coroner’s Column

Journal Review Service

Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit