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Table of Contents

September 17, 2002; Volume 167,Issue 6

Highlights of this issue

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    Highlights of this issue
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 621;

Editorial

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    Quebec's Bill 114
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 617;

Commentary

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    Discharges against medical advice: time to address the causes
    Richard Saitz
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 647-648;
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    Stroke units in Canada
    Michael D. Hill
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 649-650;
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    Deathbed disputation: a response to Peter Singer
    Margaret Somerville
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 651-654;

News

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    “Horrible balance-of-trade loss” in MDs rises again
    Patrick Sullivan
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 679;
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    HIV numbers in
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 679-679-a;
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    Man lauded for providing medical marijuana
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 679-679-b;
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    Threat from Canada's first vCJD case minimal: MDs
    Amy Jo Ehman
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 680;
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    West Nile virus heads west
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 680-680-a;
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    “Improvements in a few short months”: Romanow
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 681;
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    Quebec's MDs get nationwide support in their battle with government
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 681-681-a;
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    Are the Troubles the source of Northern Ireland's heavy prescribing?
    Mary Helen Spooner
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 682;
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    “Go south, young MD” message being heard again
    Lynda Buske
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 682-682-a;
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    Delays in cancer diagnosis loom, lab medicine specialists warn
    Patrick Sullivan
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 683;
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    Controversial deferiprone gets a boost
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 683-683-a;
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    US funds study of Canada's tobacco warnings
    Ken Kilpatrick
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 684;
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    Bringing a global vision to medical school
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 684-684-a;

Research

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    Leaving hospital against medical advice among HIV-positive patients
    Aslam H. Anis, Huiying Sun, Daphne P. Guh, Anita Palepu, Martin T. Schechter and Michael V. O'Shaughnessy
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 633-637;
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    Excellence in role modelling: insight and perspectives from the pros
    Scott M. Wright and Joseph A. Carrese
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 638-643;

Review

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    Description and evaluation of an acute stroke unit
    Stephen J. Phillips, Gail A. Eskes, Gordon J. Gubitz and on behalf of the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Acute Stroke Team
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 655-660;

Practice

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    The 2001 Canadian hypertension recommendations: take-home messages
    Norman R.C. Campbell, Denis Drouin, Ross D. Feldman and The Canadian Hypertension
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 661-668;
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    Books received
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 668;
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    Avoiding the back-to-school backache
    Erica Weir
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 669;
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    Cochlear implant recipients at risk for meningitis
    Eric Wooltorton
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 670;
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    Cardiac troponin T levels in patients with renal failure
    Benjamin H. Chen
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 671;
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    Erythematous eruption in a man with acute myeloid leukemia
    Jason Tay
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 672-673;

Letters

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    Group B streptococcal infection risk factors
    Keith J. Barrington
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 625;
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    Group B streptococcal infection risk factors
    Vibhuti Shah and Arne Ohlsson
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 625-625-a;
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    Risks of Friday discharges: Meaningful?
    Axel Ellrodt
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 625-626;
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    Risks of Friday discharges: Meaningful?
    Carl van Walraven
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 626;
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    Emergency department overcrowding
    Daniel Kollek
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 626-627;
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    Emergency department overcrowding
    Anne F. Walker
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 627;
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    Decriminalizing nonmedical drug use
    J.R. Smith
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 627-628;
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    Principles of influence
    Neil H. Shear
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 628;
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    Principles of influence
    Donald A. Redelmeier
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 628-629;
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    Circumcision: Time to deinsure?
    George Hill
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 629;
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    Circumcision: Time to deinsure?
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 629-629-a;
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    Berries for brains
    Joseph H. Beitchman
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 629-630;
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    Berries for brains
    Jessica Mendes
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 630;
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    Opt-out prenatal HIV testing in Newfoundland and Labrador
    Christa L. Mossman and Samuel Ratnam
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 630-630-a;
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    Opt-out prenatal HIV testing in Newfoundland and Labrador
    Kathleen Steel O'Connor and Susan E. MacDonald
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 630-631;
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    Disclosure in research ethics
    Howard Mann
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 631;
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    Disclosure in research ethics
    Lorraine E. Ferris
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 631-631-a;
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    Breast is best for more than 6 months
    Laura N. Haiek and Suzanne Dionne
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 631-632;
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    Breast is best for more than 6 months
    Cindy-Lee Dennis
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 632;
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    Apology
    John Hoey and Anne Marie Todkill
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 632-632-a;
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    From the penalty box
    David Sackett
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 632-632-b;

The Left Atrium

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    Steeped in statistics
    Peter Morgan
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 674-675;
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    Lying in
    Jan Nusche
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 675-676;
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    Chimeras and character
    Bettina Matzkuhn
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 677-678;
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    Birth chasm
    Richard Gruneir
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 678;

Deaths

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    Deaths
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 724;

Éditorial

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    La Loi 114 du Québec
    CMAJ September 17, 2002 167 (6) 619;
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