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Commentaries |
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Rat Doctors
Joseph H. Friedman, MD |
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The Tenacity of Tuberculosis
Stanley M. Aronson, MD |
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CONTRIBUTIONS |
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AIDS-Related Lymphoma: The Rhode Island Experience
Jorge Castillo, MD, Caitlin Hansen, Anthony Mega, MD, Karen Tashima, MD |
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Management of Behavioral Problems In Dementia
Robert Kohn, MD, MPhil, and G. Mustafa Surti, MD |
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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 |
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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 |
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COLUMNS |
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GERIATRICS FOR THE PRACTICING PHYSICIAN
Prognostication: Medicine’s Lost Art
Christopher A. Jones, MD |
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HEALTH BY NUMBERS
Health Risks Among Rhode Island High School Students, 1997–2007
Donald K. Perry, MPA, and Yongwen Jiang, PhD |
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POEM
“still”
Sarah Elizabeth Wakeman |
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POINT OF VIEW
Smoking In Theatrical Productions
Herbert Rakatansky, MD, FACP, FACG |
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2008 TarWars Rhode Island Statewide Poster Contest |
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PUBLIC HEALTH BRIEFING
Business, Gifts and Boundaries In the Physician Patient Relationship
Robert S. Crausman, MD, and Jeannine Jeha |
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PHYSICIAN’S LEXICON
The Apocalyptic Prefix
Stanley M. Aronson, MD |
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Vital Statistics |
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November Heritage |
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