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JOURNAL OF THE DOCTORS REFORM SOCIETY

issue 83 November 2005 www.drs.org.au

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Contents:

 

1

The DRS on Mental Health   View/Download PDF  337 kb

Doctors Reform Society

4

Close Your Eyes and Throw Away the Key: Mental Health of Female Prisoners.                                      

View/Download PDF  132 kb

Tracy Schrader

  9

Fitting Bent Pegs in Square Holes: Psych Patients in EDs. View/Download PDF100 kb

 Georgina Phillips

12

Reviews:

                        The Worried Well        

reviewed by

Alf Liebhold

 

                        Selling Sickness     

reviewed by

Andrew Gunn

14

What’s Wrong with Public Hospitals View/Download PDF  98 kb

Peter Davoren

16

The Abortion Issue All Over Again   View/Download PDF  24 kb

Stefania Siedlecky

19

How the Free Market Killed New Orleans

Michael Parenti

22

Self-Interest Taints GP Learning Curve

Con Costa

23

Who Benefits from Private Health Insurance in Australia?

Richard Denniss

  25 All Fall Down  Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
  27 Sick of Globalisation: The People’s Health Assembly    Kintto  Lucas
 29

The Error on Terror  

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Andrew Gunn

 30

Obituary:  Peter Podmore Manzie

 Alf Liebhold
 31

Endnotes: Choice – Needles – Toxic Sludge – Death View/Download PDF   19 kb

 

Andrew Gunn

 

 

Editors

Andrew Gunn

Alf Liebhold

Tracy Schrader

 

Editorial Advisory Panel
David Atkinson
Peter Lake
David Paul
Stefania Siedlecky
Theo van Lieshout
Carol Zarkesh

 

The views expressed in New Doctor are not necessarily those of the Doctors Reform Society.
 

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