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Table of Contents

December 08, 2015; Volume 187,Issue 18

Highlights

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    Highlights
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1335;

Editorial

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    Right to die in Canada: respecting the wishes of physician conscientious objectors
    John Fletcher
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1339; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151238

Commentary

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    Controversies in the diagnosis and management of testosterone deficiency syndrome
    Geoffrey I. Hackett
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1342-1344; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151208

News

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    Federal inmates treated for hep C drop 29%
    Paul Christopher Webster
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1345-1346; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5181
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    Nunavut acts on recommendations for suicide prevention
    Laura Eggertson
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1346; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5186
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    Syrian refugees’ mental health is top priority
    Michael Colborne
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1347; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5183
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    Medical students talk openly about their mental health challenges
    Cameron Johnston
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1348; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5151
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    Minister in charge of suicide prevention knows the crisis intimately
    Laura Eggertson
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) E503-E504; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5187
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    Calls for independent inquiry into bombing
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) E505-E506; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5189
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    Share of health spending on doctors increases
    Carolyn Brown
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) E506; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5191
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    Survey aims to capture patient experience
    Brian Owens
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) E507; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5172
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    Patient safety still lags a decade after seminal study
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) E508; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5193
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    Initial confusion after massive Allerject recall
    Carolyn Brown
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) E509-E510; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5194
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    Podcast: 10 questions with Canada’s prison watchdog
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) E511; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5190
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    Reduce disease by improving environmental health
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) E512; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5185
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    Quebec considers extra billing
    Huguette Young
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) E513; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5192

Research

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    Medical journals, impact and social media: an ecological study of the Twittersphere
    Theodore D. Cosco
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1353-1357; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.150976
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    Mirror mirror on the ward, who’s the most narcissistic of them all? Pathologic personality traits in health care
    Vittoria Bucknall, Suendoss Burwaiss, Deborah MacDonald, Kathy Charles and Rhys Clement
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1359-1363; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151135

Holiday Reading

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    Clinical Images: Pareidolia and clinical reasoning: the pattern awakens
    Jared Baylis and Daniel K. Ting
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1364; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151079
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    Poetry: On the road from Bethany
    Richard Bronson
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1365; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151089

Research in CMAJ Open

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    Highlights
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1366; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151341

Guidelines

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    Diagnosis and management of testosterone deficiency syndrome in men: clinical practice guideline
    Alvaro Morales, Richard A. Bebb, Priya Manjoo, Peter Assimakopoulos, John Axler, Christine Collier, Stacy Elliott, Larry Goldenberg, Irv Gottesman, Ethan D. Grober, Gordon H. Guyatt, Daniel T. Holmes, Jay C. Lee and Canadian Men’s Health Foundation Multidisciplinary Guidelines Task Force on Testosterone Deficiency
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1369-1377; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.150033

Practice

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    A 38-year-old man who uses crack cocaine
    Amy H.W. Sur and Lawrence C. Loh
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1383-1384; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.150491
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    Cases: Cardiac platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome in a 73-year-old woman
    Khai-Jing Ng and Yi-Da Li
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1385-1388; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.141525
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    Five things to know about …: Strongyloidiasis in immigrants and refugees in Canada
    Courtney Thompson and Andrea K. Boggild
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1389; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.141441
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    Clinical Images: Diffuse reticulate purpura in a boy with anorexia nervosa
    Cristina Garrido Colmenero and José Aneiros Fernández
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) E514; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.141543
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    Clinical Images: Aquagenic wrinkling of the palms
    Marian Katz and Yuval Ramot
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) E515; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.150074

Letters

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    Implementing growth monitoring recommendations
    Sarah E. Carsley, Karen Tu and Catherine Birken
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1391; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1150073
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    Another mini-masterpiece
    Duncan S. Armstrong
    CMAJ December 08, 2015 187 (18) 1391; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1150075
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