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June 2012, VOLUME 95, NO.6

 

 

   

 

 

Complete issue

 

 

Commentaries

170

How Can You Be Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere At All?
Joseph H. Friedman, MD

171

A Heart-Beat Is Amplified and Then Resonates In History
Stanley M. Aronson, MD

 


 

CONTRIBUTIONS

172

Effects of Erythropoietin Stimulating Agent (ESA ) Automated Adjustment Protocols On Hemoglobin Levels and Mortality In End Stage Renal Disease Patients
Luiz M. Kolankiewicz MD; Marcos Rothstein MD; Marc S Weinberg MD

176

Cervical Manipulation and the Myth of Stroke
Donald R. Murphy, DC, DACAN

178

Medical Marijuana In Huntington’s Disease: Report of Two Cases
Karl Meisel, MD; Joseph H. Friedman, MD

179

Cardiovascular Health of HIV-infected African-American Women at The Miriam Hospital Immunology Center in Providence, RI
Dalila Zachary; Fizza S. Gillani, Nida Najfi, Ryan Cassarella, and Karen Tashima

187

First Steps, a Resident-Run Postpartum Support Group For a High Risk Community
Mary Beth Sutter MD; Jordan White MD; Nirali Bora,MD; Sarah Morchen, MD; Susanna Magee MD, MPH

189

Using a Professional Organization, MomDocFamily, to Understand the Lives of Physician-Mothers
Marina M.C. MacNamara, MPH; Julie S. Taylor, MD, MSc; Kevin J. Grimm, PhD; Lynn E. Taylor, MD; Amy S. Gottlieb, MD

 


 

COLUMNS

194

HEALTH BY NUMBERS
Pregnancy Outcomes In an Initiative Preceeding Onset of Prenatal Care
Alvaro M Tinajero, MD, MPH, ScM

197

IMAGES IN MEDICINE
Intercoronary Connection Between the Right Coronary Artery and Left Circumflex Artery in the Absence of Obstructive Coronary Disease and Collaterals
Syed R. Latif, MD; Alexander G. Truesdell, MD; Thomas Drew, MD

199

PHYSICIAN'S LEXICON
An Interbreeding of Germanic and Mediterranean Words
Stanley M. Aronson, MD

199

Vital Statistics

200

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