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Articles in April 2007 issue of Australian Doctor

• In Brief.
• GP fee rethink could tackle inequity.
• Familiarity breeds respect in rural NSW.
• Cured meat linked to COPD.
• Health privacy concern.
• False certificates cost GP $20K.
• Reduced lung cancer risk with inhaled corticosteroids.
• Continuing care proves appealing.
• A life well lived.(Obituary)
• Bipolar disorder often misdiagnosed.
• Software vendors in dark on authority script codes.
• Woman in high places.(Joanna Flynn)
  by Wiseman, Heather
• Empiricus: our clinical journal commentator.
• The other Ethiopia.(Travel narrative)
  by Harris, Linda
• Hands off health equity.(public money spent on medical care)
  by Leeder, Stephen
• In Brief.
• Standing on the edge of a global diabetes disaster.
• A question of ownership.
• Focus on super-specialists 'wrong'.
• Coversyl stoush enters courtroom.
• Globetrotter.
• Varicella vaccine safe and effective.
• The long and winding road.
• Heat on solariums to meet safety standards.
• College welcomes skin cancer GPs.
• Plan now for student growth.
• In brief.
• Third time's a charm.(new Honda CR-V)(Product/service evaluation)
• Brachytherapy eligibility widened.(Brief article)
  by Carter, Helen
• Alcohol warning for Stilnox users.(Drug overview)(Brief article)
  by Jenkins, Rebecca
• Grow your greens.
  by Cundall, Peter
• COAG retreats on single rego board.(Council of Australian Governments)(Brief article)
  by McNamara, Sophie
• HDL drug optimism remains.
• Danger in numbers game.
• Men miss mark on cancer tests.
• IMGs are far from invisible.
• Great dividing drama.
• New tool to improve coeliac diagnosis.
• Up close and personal.
• Circumcision success sparks UN call for action.
• No need to rush stents in stable CAD.
• Looking to the future.
• In brief.
• Wanted: Aussie VR GP, no kids.(general practitioners)
• Exhumation in patient death probe.(Bob Cooling)(Brief article)
  by McNamara, Sophie
• Experts back United, MDAV merger.(United Medical Protection)
  by McNamara, Sophie
• Imagine yourself lost in space.
• Let's boycott item 4001.(non-directive pregnancy support counselling service)
• Globetrotter.
• Cut salt, cut CV events by 25%.
• Reliability of HbA1c assay under question.
• Tackling brain trauma.
• In brief.
• Result of GP diabetes program hailed.
• Few rewards in 'compo' for patient, employer or GP.
• Heat on solariums to meet standards.
• Small doses.(Clinical report)
• Death certificate errors add to grief.
• Termination a clue to home violence.
• Hospitalist role expands GP's horizons.
• Almost the news.
• Naming your price.(pay demands of general practitioners)
  by Ferguson, Heather
• A patient's story.
• Reasons for surge in hypospadia remain unclear.(Brief article)
  by Jenkins, Rebecca
• Testing to make blood supply safer.(Brief article)
  by Hingston, Chris
• Empiricus: our clinical journal commentator.
• Field of fire.
• Benefit rule 'disadvantages rural GPs'.
• In brief.
• Herpes in pregnancy.
• Pathologist warns of drug reporting risk.
• In doctors we trust.
• Get The PictureMagic carpet hunt.
• ACE comes up trumps for CHD.
• In brief.
• Use of overseas typing pools raises privacy concerns.
• Rotavirus vax gets OK, with questions.
• Making the team work.
• On top of the world.(Mount Everest)
  by Nogrady, Bianca
• Good deed duty.(imposing legal obligation on a physician)
  by McDonald, Cheryl