Volume 91 No. 1 January 2008
Volume 91 No. 1 January 2008 UNDER THE JOINT VOLUME 91 NO. 1 January 2008 EDITORIAL SPONSORSHIP OF: Medicine Health The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University HODE SLAND Eli Y. Adashi, MD, Dean of Medicine R I & Biological Science PUBLICATION OF THE RHODE ISLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY Rhode Island Department of Health David R. Gifford, MD, MPH, Director COMMENTARIES Quality Partners of Rhode Island 2 Rating Instruments Richard W. Besdine, MD, Chief Medical Officer Joseph H. Friedman, MD Rhode Island Medical Society 3 The Questionable Art of Detachment Nick Tsiongas, MD, MPH, President Stanley M. Aronson, MD EDITORIAL STAFF Joseph H. Friedman, MD CONTRIBUTIONS Editor-in-Chief 4 American College of Physicians, Rhode Island Chapter – Regional Joan M. Retsinas, PhD Managing Editor Conference, June 13, 2007 – Podium Presentations Stanley M. Aronson, MD, MPH 8 Neuropathic Pain Editor Emeritus Michelle L. Mellion, MD EDITORIAL BOARD 11 Pain Management In the Elderly Surgical Patient Stanley M. Aronson, MD, MPH Frederick W. Burgess, MD, PhD, and Thomas A. Burgess Jay S. Buechner, PhD John J. Cronan, MD 15 Trends of Visits To Rhode Island Emergency Departments for Pediatric James P. Crowley, MD Sexual Exposures, 1995–2001 Edward R. Feller, MD Roland C. Merchant, MD, MPH, ScD, Erin T. Kelly, Kenneth H. Mayer, MD, John P. Fulton, PhD Bruce M. Becker, MD, MPH, and Susan J. Duffy, MD, MPH Peter A. Hollmann, MD Sharon L. Marable, MD, MPH 20 Medical Intervention For Displaced Hurricane Katrina Victims Airlifted Anthony E. Mega, MD to Rhode Island Marguerite A. Neill, MD Kristina McAteer, MD, Lawrence Proano, MD, FACEP, DTM, and Frank J.
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