Vol 94, No 6 (2004)

Table of Contents

News PDF
Fred N Sanders 416
Synopsis: Less frequent Pap smears for low-risk women? PDF
Fred N Sanders 416
Practice Managent: Marketing your medical practice - Part I PDF
Foundation for Professional Development 421

From the Editor

What Islam needs is a pope PDF
Daniel J Ncayiyana 386

Editor's choice

Editor's Choice PDF
Bridget Farham 387

Correspondence

Oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma in South Africa - an urgent need for improved efforts at screening and prevention PDF
Eric R Lemmer 395
Cervical cancer screening leapfrog with human papillomavirus testing PDF
Andreas Karas 395
Disseminated tuberculous osteitis PDF
Y K Seedat 396
Job's syndrome PDF
Schneir Levin 398
On the rewards of dedication and commitment PDF
J V Larsen 398
Kruisiging beswaar PDF
J G Prinsloo 398
Conned again? PDF
Willem Theron 400

Izindaba

The one that got away PDF
  403
Community service six years on PDF
  408
Doctors v. Government - who cares most? PDF
  410
SAMJ 100 years ago / SAMJ 50 years ago PDF
  414

Forum

HAART for hospital health care workers - an innovative programme PDF
Kerry Uebel, Gerald Friedland, Robert Pawinski, Helga Holst 423
Insulin Allergy PDF
Peter J Raubenheimer, Naomi S Levitt 428
Maternal deaths - need for improved obstetric care in the Transkei region PDF
B L Meel 430

Book reviews

The treatment of Anxiety Disorders. Clinical Guides and Patient Manuals PDF
S Seedat 433

Obituaries

Alan George Blyth PDF
David F Blyth, Robert G Blyth, C Paauw 433
Renee Bernstein PDF
Trefor Jenkins 434

Editorial

Symptom control in palliative care: essential for quality of life PDF
L Gwyther, F Rawlinson 437

Scientific letters

Increase in trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (co-trimoxazole) resistance at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, in the AIDS era PDF
Heather H Crewe-Brown, Maria P Reyneke, Manikant Khoosal, Piet J Becker, Alan S Karstaedt 440
Unnoticed decline in the number unnatural deaths in South Africa PDF
Sulaiman Bah 442
Treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in non-immune and semi-immune individuals exceeding 65 kg in body weight PDF
Stephen Toovey, Andrew Jamieson 443

Original articles

Use of sedation to relieve refractory symptoms in dying patients PDF
David Cameron, Douglas Bridge, Julia Blitz-Lindeque 445
Symptoms and sites of pain experienced by AIDS patients PDF
D A Norval 450
Physician education programme improves quality of diabetes care PDF
D G van Zyl, P Rheeder 455
X-linked hypophosphataemia in South Africa PDF
Debashis Basu, John Morley Pettifor, Jennifer Kromberg 460

Abstracts

3rd African Rotavirus Symposium - 15 - 17 September 2002, Accra, Ghana PDF
  466

Guidelines

Guideline for the management of Upper Respiratory Tract Infections PDF
Working Group of the Infectious Diseases Society of Southern Africa 473