Issues 2002

July

• Vascular health risks in the Aboriginal community: a cultural approach
• A role worthy of support: The general practitioner in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
• Lessons from East Arnhem Land: Improving adherence to chronic disease treatments
• Syphilis: Diagnosis and management in general practice
• Oral hypoglycaemics: When not to use what
• One pair must last a lifetime: Misshaped feet
• Radiology quiz: Flank pain and haematuria
• Playing with genes
• Working conditions and the healthcare system: A comparison of doctors in Australia and the United Kingdom
• Reply: Are we that good?
• Research: The treatment of acute bronchitis by general practitioners in the UK: Results of a cross sectional postal survey
• Research: Do Divisions of General Practice have a role in and the capacity to tackle health inequalities?
• Failure to diagnose breast cancer
• Research: Evaluation of a general practice registrar training post in public health in rural New South Wales
• Editorial: Accepting the challenge...

August

• Editorial: Media medicine
• Childhood ENT disorders: When to refer to specialists
• A hole in the drum - An overview of tympanic membrane perforations
• Tinnitus - More can be done than most GPs think
• Management of epistaxis in general practice
• Assessment of the dizzy patient
• Reading systematic reviews
• One pair must last a lifetime: Foot care in diabetes
• Inhaled steroids in asthma - Should the doses be reduced
• New treatment for Meniere's disease
• Osteoporosis detection in the community - Are patients adequately managed?
• Medication errors - Iron injections
• Increasing hearing loss
• Clinical challenge
• Loin pain
• Brain teaser: Heavily crusted lesion
• HRT advice - Information for specific scenarios
• Does living better also mean living longer? - Quality of life and cancer
• Research: Health outcomes in people with type 2 diabetes - A Record Linkage Study
• Research: Screening for chlamydia in general practice
• Research: Keeping our GPs healthy - An overview of current Australian initiatives to address GP wellbeing

September

• Editorial: Managing emergencies in general practice
• Adult cardiac arrest in general practice
• Emergency management of acute asthma
• Anaphylaxis: The GP perspective
• Treating the acutely psychotic patient
• Practical management of the suicidal patient
• Genital herpes: An approach for general practitioners in Australia
• Who cares for the carer? The often forgotten patient
• Failure to diagnose acute myocardial infarction
• Diabetes register and recall
• A rare cause of breathlessness
• Brain teaser: Pain and weakness of the left side
• Clinical challenge
• A child with acute onset of neurological signs
• A young man with dysuria and discharge
• The tasks of general practice: A new kind of GP?
• A reminder of mortality
• Reward before effort? Is the cart before the horse?
• Research: GPs' perceived competence and comfort in managing medical emergencies in southeast Queensland
• Research: Time for care - Length of general practice consultations in Australia

October

• Editorial: Contraception - We've come a long way
• Oral contraceptives
• Implanon: The new alternative
• Take a fresh look at IUDs: Things have changed
• Emergency contraception
• Emergency contraceptive pill - Managing risk associated with unprotected sexual intercourse
• Guidelines for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis for general practitioners
• A growing dilemma - breast cancer and pregnancy
• Contraception failure and wrongful birth claims
• The immunisation cold chain - Why is it so hard to get right?
• Breathlessness with cough and fever
• Brain teaser: A white pupil
• Clinical challenge
• The Professional Development Program of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
• The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners: The development - Part 3
• Research: Health and social circumstances of women admitted to a private mother baby unit
• Research: Duration of cough in acute upper respiratory tract infections
• Research: Do people prefer general practitioners of the same sex?

November

• Editorial: What our AFP means to me
• Assessment and management of the patient presenting with snoring
• Parasomnias: Things that go thump in the night
• Insomnia: Diagnosis and management
• Settling and sleep problems in babies and young children
• Trends and outcomes for women diagnosed with ovarian cancer in Australia
• The duty of care of GPs and receptionists to treat patients requiring urgent medical attention
• Rash and deafness
• Clinical challenge
• A case of headache in a liver transplant recipient
• Brain teaser: Recurrent dermatitis
• What is Cochrane all about?
• The future of general practitioners in the management of divisions of general practice
• The importance of prognostic research
• Dying
• Quality in general practice: Some perspectives
• Research: Hepatitis C caseload and models of care for rural GPs working in northern New South Wales
• Research: The Job Related Burnout Questionnaire - A multinational pilot study
• Research: Post-traumatic stress disorder in a group of Australian general practices

December

• Editorial: A time of change
• Eat less, walk more: Enjoyable eating for type 2 diabetes
• Cannabis control: An approach to cannabis use and dependence
• Alcohol misuse and dependence: Assessment and management
• How to provide effective smoking cessation advice
• The identification and management of the drug impaired doctor
• The art of dealing with complaints
• Compassion and patient centred care
• Clinical challenge
• Brain teaser: An itchy skin lesion
• Reducing falls in community dwelling elderly
• Longevity: does what goes up always have to come down?
• Allied health professionals providing psychological treatments in general practice settings
• Psychiatry's missing link - mental injury
• Editorial: Complementary therapies in general practice
• Characteristics of Victorian general practitioners who practise complementary therapies
• A conceptual model for capacity building in Australian primary health care research