Issues 2005

January/February 

• Editorial: Being a specialist GP
• The treatment of adolescents in Australian general practice
• This summer, start a small social revolution
• Clockwork Young People's Health Service
• Teen pregnancy - a program for awareness and health education
• Mens health, GPs, and GPs4Men
• The NSW & ACT Hereditary Cancer Registers
• After hours care - a qualitative study of GPs perceptions of risk of violence and effect on service provision
• Clinical challenge
• Brain teaser: Knee discomfort
• Quality, innovation, and leadership in general practice - what do they have in common?
• Why we need to learn standardisation
• Divisions of general practice, capacity building and health reform
• How to use a case manager - a partnership approach
• Anaphylaxis - a patient perspective
• Can children and adolescents consent to their own medical treatment?
• Clinical diagnosis and management of suspicious pigmented skin lesions - a survey of GPs
• Improving the learning needs survey by using four approaches
• The use of therapeutic flags to assist GPs prescribing for older persons
• People aged to 18 years per metropolitan and rural GP
• Does legislation reduce harm to doctors who prescribe for themselves?
• The Yarning for better health program
• Multiple SBCCs - topical imiquimod versus curette and cryotherapy
• Managing childhood food allergies and anaphylaxis
• The Good Life Club project
• Cancer in Australia - an update for GPs

March

• Editorial Lucky for some
• Editorial: Delayed childbearing - ensuring life choices are informed
• Management of infertility in Australian general practice
• We are having trouble conceiving...
• Management of the infertile couple
• The ART of assisted reproductive technology
• Developments in infertility therapy - Diagnosis of genetic disease in embryos
• Polycystic ovary syndrome - a management
• Infertility and its treatment - an emotional roller coaster
• Basal body temperature chart
• Management of benign breast conditions Part 1 - painful breasts
• Recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis
• Motor vehicle accidents during episodes of hypoglycaemia - case reports and lessons to be learnt
• Implantable hearing devices - beyond hearing aids
• Sex, consent and intellectual disability
• The IVF experience - a patient perspective
• Failure to diagnose: ectopic pregnancy
• Population and public health in Australian general practice - changes, challenges and opportunities
• Undergraduate general practice attachments - implications and challenges
• Brain teaser: Swollen calf
• Clinical challenge
• Answering a question about the treatment of croup
• Reasons for delaying childbearing - a survey of women aged over 35 years seeking assisted reproductive technology
• Patient social and economic circumstances - GP perceptions and their influence on management
• Childhood asthma diagnosis and use of asthma medication
• Self management beliefs - attitudes and behaviour of adults with severe life threatening asthma requiring an admission to hospital
• Barriers to the use of spirometry in general practice
• Becoming a GP - a qualitative study of the career interests of medical students

April

• Things are not always as they seem
• Giving evidence
• A peer support program for international medical graduates
• Clinical Challenge
• Introduction of electronic prescribing in an aged care facility
• Peer support for cancer patients
• Killing George with kindness
• Are we more than the sum of our parts?
• Self assessed learning needs of rurally based IMGs
• Patient perceptions of the GP role in cancer management
• An evidence based clinical aid for cardiovascular disease
• Presentations of diarrhoea in Australian general practice
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Acute gastroenteritis in children
• Inflamatory bowel disease
• Travellers diarrhoea
• Coeliac disease
• Management of benign breast conditions (part 2)
• What is a breast cyst?
• Managing mental illness in patients from CALD backgrounds
• Can we prevent prostate cancer?
• Traumatic brain injury - the need for support and follow up
• Coeliac disease - A patient perspective
• An unusual case of diarrhoea
• Low prostate specific antigen levels and normal digital rectal examination
• Water as a fast acting wax softening agent before ear syringing

May

• Eczema - practical management issues
• Occupational dermatoses
• Cutaneous manifestations of systemic disease
• Management of infantile eczema
• Fatal adverse drug reaction to trimethoprim
• Procedures in primary care dermatology
• Management of benign breast conditions (part 3)
• Nipple discharge
• Assessing fitness to drive (part 1)
• The hazards of horse riding
• Standards and performance - attainment and maintenance of professional capabilities
• Meeting the needs of patients with cancer - a GP guide to support services
• Clinical Challenge
• Consent to medical treatment
• Government involvement in general practice
• General practitioner, specialist providers case conferences in palliative care
• Australian Cancer Helpline
• Patient view on chronic illness and its care in general practice
• Computer use in general practice consultations

June

• Keeping the diabetic heart healthy
• Cardiovascular risk factor control in Australia
• Motivating patients to move
• Exercise and hypertension
• Smoking and GPs: time to cough up
• Secondary prevention of CHD
• Management of hyperlipidaemia
• Dietary dilemmas in diabetes
• Smoking cessation guidelines for Australian general practice
• Breast imaging in general practice
• Assessing fitness to drive (Part 2)
• Clinical challenge
• Orientation of IMGs
• Acute myocardial infarction
• The proof of the pudding...
• Compassion fatigue and burnout
• GPs views of absolute cardiovascular risk and its role in primary prevention
• Smoking cessation for Australian general practice
• Preventive activities during consultations in general practice

July

• Presentations of shortness of breath in Australian general practice
• "I cannot breathe"
• Management of an acute asthma attack
• Spirometry: an essential clinical measurement
• Shortness of breath
• An integrative approach to asthma
• Managing panic disorder in general practice
• Pulmonary embolism
• Chronic heart failure
• Patient Education: Asthma first aid for your child
• Cervical screening and human papillomavirus
• Making sense of breast pathology
• Brain Teaser: A patient with squint
• Clinical Challenge
• Banda Aceh
• Should I report the death to the Coroner?
• Complementary and alternative medicine
• Psychological distress among GPs
• How do Victorian GPs manage
• Patients with diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance

August

• If pain persists...
• Diagnosing headache
• Migraine - Diagnosis and treatment
• Neck related causes of headache
• Atypical facial pain - A diagnostic challenge
• Migraine and tension headache - A complementary and alternative medicine approach
• Giant cell arteritis - Presenting as stroke, transient ischaemic attack and dementia
• Breast cancer - New and emerging technologies for diagnosis and management
• Managing skin cancer - 23 golden rules
• A1C - frequently asked questions
• Hip fracture - Challenges in prevention and management
• Failure to diagnose: subarachnoid haemorrhage
• Computerisation of records - Using nonmedical staff for past history summarisation
• Complementary and alternative medicine
• Clinical Challenge
• Australian women's experience with Implanon
• Changes in HT prescriptions in Australia since 1992
• Recognition of physical and psychological symptoms - No influence of GP demographic factors
• Making use of waiting time - An organisational tool for encouraging health promotion in rural general practice

September

• Management of growth delay in patients aged less than 6 years
• Intrauterine growth restriction- diagnosis and management
• An approach to 'failure to thrive'
• Child and adolescent growth disorders - an overview
• Developmental delay identification and management
• Weighty matters an approach to childhood overweight in general practice
• Emotional growth - helping children and families 'bounce back'
• Management of early breast cancer - The current approach
• Monitoring after childhood cancer - An update for GPs
• Tackling health inequalities - General practitioners and physicians working together
• Small groups for supporting GPs’ professional development in mental health disease
• Recognition and management of perinatal depression in general practice

October

• Letters to the Editor
• Letters to the Editor
• Encounters with indigenous patients in Australian general practice
• Indigenous male health disadvantage - Linking the heart and mind
• Prevention and socioeconomic disadvantage
• Refugee health
• Concordance - An alternative term to compliance in the Aboriginal population
• Inequities in Aboriginal health - Access to the Asthma 3+ Visit Plan
• PBS medications - Improving access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• The RACGP - Supporting GPs to work better in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
• NACCHO GP Network - Enhancing communication in Aboriginal health
• Breast cancer in young women
• Ear examination - A practical guide
• Re-entry adjustment of cross cultural workers - The role of the GP
• Diabetes and the skin - Part 1 Tender skin lumps
• Contraception and sexually transmitted infections
• A GP's duty of confidentiality
• Do we need USPs?
• Research and development in Central Australia - an indigenous perspective
• Indigenous research - a personal perspective
• Facial rash - Brain teaser
• Clinical Challenge
• Self directed learning and continuing medical education
• Consent before testing men for prostate cancer - a challenge?
• An educational workshop on the early detection of prostate cancer - A before -after evaluation
• Early management of meningococcal disease - Do attitudes of GPs influence practice?
• What factors facilitate a GP survey high response rate?

November

• Letters to the editor
• Management of renal problems in Australian general practice
• Glomerulonephritis - Management in general practice
• Chronic kidney disease - Management
• Automated reporting of GFR - Coming soon to a laboratory near you!
• Diabetic nephropathy - How might we prevent, retard, or cope with it?
• Childhood urinary conditions
• Proteinuria
• Cardiovascular issues of COX-2 inhibitors and NSAIDs
• Ductal carcinoma in situ - Management
• Patient Education: Ductal carcinoma in situ
• The ESSENCE of health care
• Diabetes and the skin - Part 2
• Brain Teaser: Groin rash
• Clinical Challenge
• The RACGP Examination - Changes from 1999-2004
• Failure to diagnose: renal disease
• The skill of the consultation - Some observations on how not to do it
• Research - getting started
• My novice research experience
• Book Reviews
• Screening for social anxiety - A pilot study
• Depression after cardiac hospitalisation - The Identifying Depression as a Comorbid Condition (IDACC) study
• Depression associated with combined oral contraceptives - A pilot study
• Patient recruitment for a practice nurse study
• The RACGP Examination - Changes from 1999-2004

December

• The unannounced standardised patient methodology - A potential feedback tool for registrar training
• Professional career needs of GPs and registrars working in northwestern NSW
• External clinical teaching visits in the regionalised environment
• Three years of registrar rural exemptions - A review of a novel approach
• The year ahead