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Features

MAY 2022

Contents

Departments
10 CONTRIBUTORS
12 FROM THE PUBLISHER
14 CHATTER
17 CityState

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Taking a Toll

Helene Macedo , an RN case manager at Rhode Island Hospital , was out of work for nine months after suffering from the effects of long COVID .
Front-line health care workers have been hailed as heroes during the pandemic . But what happens when they ’ re the ones in need of care ? By Lauren Clem
19 CURRENT Corliss-Carrington House ; oceanographer-turned-author Padma Venkatraman ; Kismet Improv .
24 STYLE Set a place at the table for mom and your loved ones this Mother ’ s Day .
27 OUT TAKES Providence Preservation Society ’ s Winter Bash .
31 REPORTER Female lawmakers and advocates are pushing back against discrimination in health care .
41 TO-DO LIST May ’ s best activities .
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HELENE MACEDO : ALEX GAGNE ; TOP DOCS : GETTY IMAGES / EKATERINA SKORIK ; WHAT REMAINS : GETTY IMAGES / WILD PIXEL ; DINING OUT : ANGEL TUCKER .

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Top Doctors 2022
Rhode Island ’ s physicians name the 192 best specialists in the state . Edited by Edelinda Baptista

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What Remains
A writer recounts her mother ’ s journey into Alzheimer ’ s disease and the love that shines through even as darkness takes hold . By Ellen Liberman
83 RHODE TRIPS Blooming flower farms to visit this spring .
105 AT HOME A South County renovation transforms a home from cluttered to classy .
110 DINING OUT “ Another ” restaurant by Bacaro ’ s chef-owners spotlights Spanish and Portuguese cooking .
128 SNAPSHOT Pole tracking at Touisset Marsh Wildlife Refuge in Warren .
ON THE COVER : Front-line workers struggling with burnout . Illustration by Brendan Totten . Follow us on the Web at RIMonthly . com .
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