Table of Contents
From the Editor
| Task shifting or power shedding? | |
| JP van Niekerk | 327 |
Editors choice
| Editors choice | |
| JP van Niekerk | 329 |
Briewe (letters)
| Humans – a threat to humanity | |
| JOHN DUTOIT ZAAIJMAN | 330 |
| Suggestions for SAMJ editorial policies | |
| Louis-Jacques Jean van Bogaert | 330 |
| The season cometh…yet again! | |
| Dhamend Lutchman | 331 |
| Access to parenteral phenobarbitone | |
| Jo Wilmshurst, Eugenie Gordon-Graham, Gillian Green, Loius Reynolds, Marc Blockman | 332 |
| End of Life Decisions | |
| Ronald Ferguson Ingle | 332 |
Izindaba
| State doctor recruitment - key official in corruption probe | |
| Chris Bateman | 334 |
| Ivan Toms – a selfless model of social conscience | |
| Chris Bateman | 338 |
| Probe into alleged treatment refusal | |
| Chris Bateman | 342 |
| No disaster’s yet please – we’re catching up | |
| Chris Bateman | 344 |
Forum
| When Best Practice is Bad Medicine: A new approach to rationing tertiary health services in South Africa | |
| Chris Richard Kenyon, Andrew Boulle, Nathan Ford | 350 |
| IMPROVING INJECTION SAFETY | |
| Sibongile Nontuthuzelo Mogale | 356 |
| SPINAL TUBERCULOSIS : diagnostic biopsy is mandatory | Details PDF |
| Ian Zondagh, Robert Dunn | 360 |
| THE ALCOHOLIC’S SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS | |
| shalendra kumar misser, Sandie R Thomson | 364 |
Obituaries
| J M L Klopper | |
| W K Andrew | 367 |
Editorial
| NICE rationing of specialised healthcare services for South Africa? | |
| Bettina Taylor | 368 |
Scientific letters
| SURVIVAL AFTER MASSIVE INTENTIONAL OVERDOSE OF PARAQUAT | |
| Umesh Gangaram Lalloo, Anish Ambaram | 370 |
| Coronary spasm and thrombosis in a body builder using a nutritional supplement containing synephrine, octopamine and caffeine. | |
| Jan-Peter Smedema, Gerbus J Muller | 372 |
| Involving African Traditional Health Practitioners (THPs) in HIV/AIDS interventions | |
| Joanne Wreford, Monika Esser | 374 |
Original articles
| DETERMINANTS AND TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION IN SOUTH AFRICANS DURING 1998. THE FIRST DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY | Abstract PDF |
| Krisela Steyn, Debbie Bradshaw, Rosana Elizabeth Norman, Ria Laubscher | 376 |
| Association of Tooth Loss with Hypertension | Abstract PDF |
| Olalekan Abdulwahab Ayo-Yusuf, Imade Joan Ayo-Yusuf | 381 |
| A contrast-enhanced ultrasound study of benign and malignant breast tissue | Abstract PDF |
| Serita Barnard, Timothy Cooke, Wilson Angerson, Edward Leen | 386 |
| Multiple sclerosis in South Africa | |
| Girish Modi, Andre Mocham, Madelein du Toit, Ivan IS Stander | 391 |
| RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOURS OF HIGH-SCHOOL PUPILS IN AN ERA OF HIV AND AIDS | Abstract PDF |
| Serena Visvakanti Frank | 394 |