Volume 35, Number 2, April 2008
Volume 35, No. 2, April 2008
NZFP April 2008
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CONTENTS
Primary care special interests
Appearance medicine
Paul R Weaver
Musculoskeletal medicine
Gary Collinson
Sports medicine
Chris Milne
Addiction medicine
Ross McCormick
Academic sub-specialisation in general practice: How do we choose?
Tana Fishman
Opinion and Comment
Editorial
Tony Townsend
Original Scientific Papers
Identifying psychological distress in New Zealand primary care: The General Health Questionaire-12 (GHQ-12) as a screening instrument
Julia Davis, Karma Galyer, TeeJay Halliday, John Fitzgerald, Juanita M Ryan
Diagosing mental illness in general practice
Steven Lillis, Graham Mellsop, Maureen Emery
Taking a closer look at Web-based CME: An exploratory study
Vincent Chong, Cherry Hsu, Ross McCormick
Improving Performance
What primary care wants from hospital electronic discharge summaries - a North / West Auckland perspective
David Hopcroft, Jill Calveley
Doctors and nurses: Standing orders in primary care - a literature review
Joeseph Scott-Jones and Ross Lawrenson
Continuing Medical Education
Morbid obesity: Why diets don't work and the role of surgery
Rob Fris
Managing variability in warfarin dosing: Drugs, diseases and diets
Jeff Harrison
Cochrane Corner: Tricyclics and Venlafaxine are effective for neuropathic pain but SSRIs may not be
Bruce Arroll
Issues
Managing the cross-cultural consultation: The importance of cultural safety
Ben Gray
Reflections
A reflection on herbal medicine and Karl Popper
Jim Hefford
Friends, emails and bum rubs - helping amputees everywhere
Matt Harrison
Journal Review Service
Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit