General Practice in Australia 2000 retains most of the format of its predecessor, but many of the chapters have additional (as well as updated) information. There are some entirely new chapters on topics not covered at all (or only in passing) in the first edition. There is also a minor change of style: the Department says that it allowed authors “... more freedom to explore contentious issues ...

READING and, with the help of colleagues, 'field-testing' this manual at various times throughout the Christmas season, I was struck with how sihiilar the editors' problem is with that of the housewife. The latter has to recycle traditional dishes in a fresh manner just as the editors of this manual attempt to rearrange material that has appeared elsewhere often by the same publisher and invari...

Reflection on past achievements and future challenges 10 years after the establishment of the Australian General Practice Training program.

Magnetic excitations in the quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet IPA-CuCl3 are studied by cold neutron inelastic scattering. Strongly dispersive gap excitations are observed. Contrary to previously proposed models, the system is best described as an asymmetric quantum spin ladder. The observed spectrum is interpreted in terms of composite Haldane spin chains. The key difference from actual S=1...

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a Department of Family Practice, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fairfax, Virginia 22033, USA, b Center for Quality of Care Research, University of Nijmegen, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, Netherlands, c School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DA, d Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AA, e Heal...

The practice is a two-man training practice with a list of approximately 4,000, mainly in social classes III, IV and V. Over the past five years, 10 trainees have been attached to the practice, each for a period of six months. Three of the trainees have been women. Two hundred and fifty-eight patients who visited the surgery in a two-week period were asked by the receptionist to complete a ques...

Mental practice (MP) has been shown to improve movement accuracy and velocity, but it is not known whether MP can also optimize movement timing. We addressed this question by studying two groups of expert pianists who performed challenging music sequences after either MP or physical practice (PP). Performance and motion-capture data were collected along with responses to imagery questionnaires....