Vol 93, No 12 (2003)

Table of Contents

News PDF
Fred N Sanders 894
Practice Management: Business planning - External Environment Analysis PDF
Foundation for Professional Development 897

From the Editor

The Malawi medical school - a success story PDF
Daniel J Ncayiyana 870

Editor's choice

Editor's choice PDF
J P de V van Niekerk 871

Correspondence

Dispensing with doctors? PDF
E Hassen 878
Ethics, litigation and teaching of anatomy PDF
D F du Toit 878
Mountain rescue - nerve blocks, helicopters, hyperthermia and hypotension PDF
Teresa Dutkiewicz, Arthur Morgan, S A Craven 879

Izindaba

Legal bone throwing has doctors hopping mad PDF
  882
AIDS - why we must do more PDF
  886
SAMJ 100 years ago / SAMJ 50 years ago PDF
  887
Legislation to 'con' doctors? PDF
  888
Did we really help break the HIV prevalence wave? PDF
  890
Synopsis: Aspirin and cardiovascular disease PDF
  892

Obituaries

David Jacobus Botes PDF
Daan Botes 913
Professor Gaisford (Gai) Gerald Harrison (1926 - 2003) PDF
MFM James, PC Gordon 914
Saul Zwi PDF
Phillip V Tobias 914

Book reviews

Lectures Notes on Clinical Medicine PDF
Janet Seggie 912
Medical Therapy of Breast Cancer PDF
I D Werner 912

Forum

Human resource requirements for introducing cervical screening - who do we need where? PDF
S Fonn 901
Antimycobacterial activity of indigenous South African plants PDF
Peter W Taylor 904
Laugh the Beloved Country PDF
J P van Niekerk 907
Home-Based HIV / AIDS Care PDF
Chris Bateman 908
Letter from Pietermaritzburg - My number is up PDF
Robert-Ian Caldwell 909
Notes from Vertas 2003 PDF
Jonathan Spencer Jones, Emma Buchanan 910

Editorial

Whither the AIDS epidemic - or lie, damned lies and statistics? PDF
David Bourne 916

Scientific letters

The living situations of orphans in periurban Blantyre, Malawi PDF
Adamson S Muula, Humphreys Misiri, Lumbani Munthali, Staphael Kalengo, Francis Kachali, Malangizo Mbewe, Sandress Msuku 920

Original articles

Intracardiac air - the 'hospital killer' identified? Case reports and review of the literature PDF
Johan Smith, Ilse Els 922
Psychopathology and coping in recently diagnosed HIV / AIDS patients - the role of gender PDF
Benjamin O Olley, Faniswa Gxamza, Soraya Seedat, Hugo Theron, Jantjie Taljaard, Emile Reid, Helmuth Reuter, Dan J Stein 928
Antinuclear antibody testing in obstetric patients PDF
I E Afman, H S Cronje, G Joubert, P N Badenhorst, M G Schoon 932
History of Medicine: The history and pathology of crucifixion PDF
F P Retief, L Cilliers 938

Guidelines

Approach to Clinical Guidelines 2003 PDF
Clinical Guidelines 943-1018