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RHODE ISLAND M EDICAL J OURNAL SPECIAL SECTION SPORTS MEDICINE GUEST EDITOR: RAZIB KHAUND, MD October 2016 VOLUME 99 • NUMBER 10 ISSN 2327-2228 Your records are secure. Until they’re not. Data theft can happen to anyone, anytime. A misplaced mobile device can compromise your personal or patient records. RIMS-IBC can get you the cyber liability insurance you need to protect yourself and your patients. Call us. 401-272-1050 IN COOPERATION WITH RIMS-IBC 405 PROMENADE STREET, SUITE B, PROVIDENCE RI 02908-4811 MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL/CYBER LIABILITY PROPERTY/CASUALTY LIFE/HEALTH/DISABILITY RHODE ISLAND M EDICAL J OURNAL 18 Collaboration and Collegiality: The Fuel For Growth in Sports Medicine RAZIB KHAUND, MD GUEST EDITOR R. Khaund, MD 19 Preparticipation Physical Exams: The Rhode Island Perspective, A Call for Standardization PETER K. KRIZ, MD,FAAP, FACSM AILIS CLYNE, MD, MPH, FAAP SARA R. FORD, MD, FAAP On the cover P. Kriz, MD A. Clyne, MD S. 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SETTipaNE, MD EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 37 Fluid Choice Matters in Critically-ill Patients with Acute Pancreatitis: NEWELL E. wardE, PhD Lactated Ringer’s vs. Isotonic Saline MOHAMMED M. ABOELSOUD, MD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OSAMA SIDDIQUE, MD JOSEPH H. FRIEDMAN, MD ALEXANDER MORALES, MD ASSOCIate EDITOR YOUNG SEOL, ScB SUN HO AHN, MD MAZEN O. AL-QADI, MD PUBLIcatION StaFF MANAGING EDITOR 42 A Five-Year Evolution of a Student-led Elective on Health Disparities MARY KORR at The Alpert Medical School [email protected] LUCINDA B. LEUNG, MD, MPH GRAPHIC DESIGNER JAMES E. SIMMONS, MD MARIANNE MIGLIORI JULIUS HO, BS ADVertISING STEVEN DETOY EMMA ANSELIN, BA SARAH STEVENS RIAN YalamaNCHILI, BA [email protected] JOSEPH S. RABATIN, MD EDITORIAL BOARD 47 Medical School Ranking and Student Research Opportunities JOHN J. CRONAN, MD JAMES P. CROWLEY, MD ANNIKA G. HAVNAER Edward R. FELLER, MD PAUL B. GREENBERG, MD JOHN P. FULTON, PhD PETER A. HOLLMANN, MD KENNETH S. KORR, MD MARGUERITE A. 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FRIEDMAN, MD [email protected] 8 9 EN N EUROLOGICAL DIS - of Alzheimer’s disease, parkinsonism, which, despite being only orders are the most dif- and not what they were a general term for a syndrome, adequate ficult to diagnose. While expected to be. Occa- enough to understand the disease pro- imaging and genetic test- sional cases of Alzhei- cess, possibly do a Google search, etc. ing has advanced tremen- mer’s masquerades as My local colleagues learn as well, but dously over the past three other, rare disorders. In a only an occasional brain autopsy will decades, and our ability few years we will see that merit a case report. to diagnose has advanced much of what we believe Getting autopsies is not very easy, with it, the truth of the about Parkinson’s disease despite the extremely generous and matter is that we’re not so will be reframed based on hospitable nature of the neuropathology good at identifying most pathological and genetic group at Rhode Island Hospital, which is neurodegenerative disor- findings. Thirty percent where all brain autopsies are performed. ders in life that do not fit a clear pattern. of people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s It turns out that they do more than I Complicating the matter is the fact disease by dementia experts are proven thought, although less than they should. that it is not uncommon for different wrong at autopsy. We Parkinson’s dis- Autopsies, in general, are dwindling. disorders to have identical clinical ease experts even misdiagnose Parkin- In the U.S., in-hospital deaths were presentations. Probably the most com- son’s disease about 10–20% of the time, autopsied over half the time 50 years mon example is the problem of diag- especially during the early years. The ago, but now only about 5%. Obviously, nosing dementia with Lewy bodies. point of these references to esoterica is out-patient death autopsies are much This is quite simple if the patient with to establish that neurologists are unable less common, partly because the family dementia also has clear-cut features of to make diagnoses in a fair number of rarely knows how to proceed, and if they Parkinson’s disease. But, if the demen- cases, that we know a lot about what contact the attending physician, that tia precedes the motor dysfunction the we don’t know, but, like everyone else, person usually does not know how to diagnosis is made correctly in only don’t know what we don’t know, which proceed. And, even if the doctor is me, about half the cases if seen by a demen- is why autopsies are crucial if we are to the logistics are challenging and the tia specialist, and mostly diagnosed as make advances. family has to pay the funeral home to Alzheimer’s by other doctors, including I am not very good at getting autop- transport the body.