The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners

Volume 33, No. 4, August 2006

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NZFP August 2006

CONTENTS

Contents

Practical Solutions

Steadfast flexibility: Supporting good practice
Chris van Weel

Towards a practical solution for depression in general practice
Jane Gunn

Self-management support: A win-win solution for the 21st century
Janine J Bycroft and Jocelyn Tracey

Opinion and Comment

Editorial
Tony Townsend

Readers Write

Case Reports

Increasing abdominal girth: The importance of clinical examination
Alison Gale, Tommy J Cobb, Robert A Norelli and William LeMaire

The use of totarol to treat acne in an adolescent: A case study
David Nixon and Daniel Hobbs

Continuing Medical Education

Otitis externa
Robert G Gunn

The power of the family in general practice: Enhance your effectiveness when caring for anorexia nervosa patients
Charles Fishman and Tana Fishman

Peripheral vertigo in general practice
Tim Mathews

POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters

Cochrane Corner: Hypertension in the elderly: When to start and when to stop
Bruce Arroll

Issues

Hothealth websites
Michael Miller

Improving Performance

An audit of general practice excisions
Brian CS Wood

Journal Review Service

Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit