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JULY 2016

Volume 99, Number 7

 
 

Complete issue

Archives

About RIMJ

For Authors
Contributors
Letters to the Editor

For Advertisers

Editor-in-Chief
Joseph H. Friedman, MD

Associate Editor
Sun Ho Ahn, MD

Managing Editor
Mary Korr

Graphic Designer
Marianne Migliori

Advertising
Steve DeToy, Sarah Stevens

     

 

CONTRIBUTIONS

12

Willingness of Rhode Island Dentists to Provide
Limited Preventive Primary Care

Catherine Tuyet Mai Dang, BA; Renee R. Shield,
P
hD; Donald B. Giddon, DMD, PhD

15

Geriatric Issues in Older Dialysis Patients
Manoj Bhattarai, MD

19

Influence of Medical Student Debt on the Decision
to Pursue Careers in Primary Care

Joseph A. Gil, MD; Gregory R. Waryasz, MD; Dorothy Liu, BS; Alan H. Daniels, MD

22

Surveillance of Travel-Related Mosquito-borne
Illness in Rhode Island

Neha Alang, MD; Justin Glavis-Bloom, MD; Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD, MPH; Leonard A. Mermel, DO, ScM; Maria D. Mileno, MD

 

CASE REPORTS

24

Atypical presentation of infective endocarditis
Karuppiah Arunachalam, MD

27

A case of Ochrobactrum anthropi-induced septic shock and infective endocarditis
Farhan Ashraf, MD

 

EMERGENCY MEDICINE RESIDENCY CPC

29

The pharma-fever that almost got away
Xiao Chi Zhang, MD, MS; Matthew Siket, MD; William Binder, MD

 

PUBLIC HEALTH

32

Vital Statistics
Roseann Giorgianni, State Registrar

 

COMMENTARY

7

The Misperceived Curmudgeon
JOSEPH H. FRIEDMAN, MD

 

WE ARE READ EVERYWHERE
RIMJ readers' photos

11

Rome, Italy

 

RIMS NEWS
(7-page section)

34

Convivium 2016

35

Working for You

39

Why You Should Join RIMS

47

PEOPLE
(11-page section)

 

Appointments
Recognition
Obituaries

58

HERITAGE

 

1915: Poison Pies on the
Fourth of July Create Panic
in Westerly & Stonington, CT

MARY KORR

 

IN THE NEWS
(complete 6-page section)

41

RI Foundation awards $480,000 for medical research

43

Pediatric Anxiety Research Center moves to Bradley campus
Clinical and research branches united in one collaborative setting

45

NIH awards Brown $11.5M for computational biology research
Brown University will launch a Center for Biomedical Research Excellence in Computational Biology of Human Disease to expand its research using sophisticated computer analyses to understand and fight human diseases.

 

South County Health opens Medical & Wellness Center in Westerly

 

Fatima opens Long-Term Behavioral Health Unit
Will assist with state waiting list

 
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