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NOVEMBER 2008, VOLUME 91, NO.11

 

 

   

 

  Complete issue
 

 

Commentaries

330

Rat Doctors
Joseph H. Friedman, MD

331

The Tenacity of Tuberculosis
Stanley M. Aronson, MD

 


 

CONTRIBUTIONS

332

AIDS-Related Lymphoma: The Rhode Island Experience
Jorge Castillo, MD, Caitlin Hansen, Anthony Mega, MD, Karen Tashima, MD

335

Management of Behavioral Problems In Dementia
Robert Kohn, MD, MPhil, and G. Mustafa Surti, MD

339

Variations In Laboratory Testing During Medical Clearance of Psychiatric Patients In the Emergency Department
Keith Corl, MD, Michael J. Mello, MD, MPH, Janette Baird, PhD,
Liudvikas Jagminas, MD, Michael Siclari, Ali Kazim, MD

342

Abstracts: Rhode Island Chapter, American College of Physicians 2008
Annual Meeting – Associates Forum Competition Winners

Introduction, N.S. Damle, MD, FACP;
Fever of Unknown Origin, Nicole Theodoropoulos, MD, and Bethany Gentilesco, MD; Hypokalemic Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis in a Young African American Male,
Ravi Gupta, MD, and Gerardo Carino, MD;
Predicting HIV Viral Load by Immunological Trends: Implications for Identification of Treatment Failure in Resource-poor Settings
,
Philip A. Chan, MD, Fizza S. Gillani, MD, Susan Cu-Uvin, MD, Charles C.
Carpenter, MD, Rami Kantor, MD;
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Colonization of Surgical and Medical Residents, Anna A. Barbosa, MD, and Leonard A. Mermel, DO;
Genetic and Functional Adaptation of Pancreatic Beta Islets to Pregnancy: Potential for Gene Therapy in Diabetic Patients, Georg Elias MD, Melissa Brown, PhD, Luca Cicalese, MD, Cristiana Rastellini, MD;
Effects of Erythropoietin Adjust Automated Protocols on Hemoglobin Levels in ESRD Patients, Luiz M. Kolankiewicz, MD, Jerome S. Tannenbaum, MD, PhD, FACP, Marcos Rothstein MD, FACP, Marc S. Weinberg MD, FACP;
Quality of Sleep in Hospitalized Patients, Paras Patel, MD, Rakesh Gupta, MD

 


 

COLUMNS

347

GERIATRICS FOR THE PRACTICING PHYSICIAN
Prognostication: Medicine’s Lost Art
Christopher A. Jones, MD

349

HEALTH BY NUMBERS
Health Risks Among Rhode Island High School Students, 1997–2007
Donald K. Perry, MPA, and Yongwen Jiang, PhD

351

POEM
“still”
Sarah Elizabeth Wakeman

352

POINT OF VIEW
Smoking In Theatrical Productions
Herbert Rakatansky, MD, FACP, FACG

353

2008 TarWars Rhode Island Statewide Poster Contest

354

PUBLIC HEALTH BRIEFING
Business, Gifts and Boundaries In the Physician Patient Relationship
Robert S. Crausman, MD, and Jeannine Jeha

355

PHYSICIAN’S LEXICON
The Apocalyptic Prefix
Stanley M. Aronson, MD

355

Vital Statistics

356

November Heritage

 
 

Cover “Snow Walk”, digital illustration, by Shira Sela. Shira Sela is an artist, illustrator
and designer. In her illustrations Shira tries to express certain moods or capture a certain atmosphere that is created at a specific moment in time. She works with both traditional and digital mediums and loves to use inks, pens and markers as well as various graphic and illustration softwares. www.shirasela.com, shira@shirasela.com

 
 

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