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Om SchoolOur guide to yoga in Rhode Island. |
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Doctor Feel GoodRajiv Kumar is a man on a mission: to help Rhode Islanders become the biggest losers (of weight, that is) and, in the process, get hooked on healthy living. |
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Touching the Right NerveOvercoming Depression: After twenty years of therapy, antidepressants and hospitalization, Kathy Forant decided to try one last thing to ease her severe depression: a new nerve-stimulation... |
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Splitting HairsAfter radiation treatment for three brain tumors left her nearly bald, Amy Finn couldn’t find a hair implant surgeon who would take her insurance. Until she met one doctor who said he’d do it... |
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A Good FitBarbara Laterra suffered from knee pain for years, and in 2006 she received the first gender-specific knee implant in Rhode Island. Now she can finally go for a walk without crying. |
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May 2007: This year, we asked Rhode Island doctors to tell us: If they had a mother, sister, daughter or female friend who needed medical care, to whom would they refer her? We polled them in specialty areas of specific concern to women. Some areas are more obvious — gynecology and obstetrics for example. Others we chose because of specific female need — autoimmune disease, because about 75 percent of these diseases occur in women; cardiology, because symptoms in women present differently than in men, sometimes leading to misdiagnosis.
Rhode Island Monthly's Medical Guide features a directory of more than 2,000 local physicians in active practice. Use our search function to sort by name, specialty, hospital/practice location, or insurance accepted.
May 2006: In this year's Top Doctors issue we honor 170 physicians who go the extra distance. To get the list, we polled all of the state's licensed physicians and asked them: if you or a member of your family had a problem in any of the following areas, who would you select as the best specialist? The enthusiastic response confirmed that Rhode Island is fortunate to have many doctors who are as competent as they are compassionate.