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WSJ: Nurse Practitioner Is Now the Hottest Job in Healthcare

Jack Cush, MD

The Wall St. Journal has published a perspective on nurse practitioners (NP) and their very promising careers.

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Hydroxychloroquine: 5 mg/kg/day Is Only the Starting Point

Shivani Garg, MD, PhD,  , Donald Thomas, MD, FACP, FACR, RhMSUS

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is one of the most important drugs in rheumatology, especially for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). It reduces flares, organ damage, cardiovascular events, and pregnancy complications, and it improves survival.

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Nurses - the calm through chaos

Jack Cush, MD

Gloria was the charge nurse on 3 West when a “code” was called. Action, running, and commotion ensues as the crash cart, nurses, and respiratory therapist appear at the bedside. Two residents emerge as the patient is hooked up to the monitor. While everyone assumes their position and role, Gloria ensures the protocol and steers the people, pumping, intubating, monitoring and medicating. 

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A Patient’s Plea for a New Paradigm in Autoimmune Disease

Jack Cush, MD

A current article in Nature Reviews Rheumatology has a patient boldly asking why we rheumatologists aren't more like her oncologists?

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More Comorbidity in Difficult to Treat RA

Jack Cush, MD

A systematic review demonstrated that smoking, obesity, fibromyalgia, and depression are significantly associated with difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis (D2T-RA).

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Great Lectures; Great Presentations

Jack Cush, MD

Dr. Jack Cush lectures on giving a great presentation; based on 40 years of lecturing in Rheumatology.

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EULAR Recommendations for Physical Activity in Arthritis

Jack Cush, MD

EULAR has published a 2025 update for physical activity recommendations for patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). 

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Rheumatology Salaries 2025

Jack Cush, MD

Medscape has published its annual Physician Compensation report with physican salaries up roughly 3% and eight specialties earning more than $500,000 per annum. 

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Physician Use of Augmented Intelligence has Doubled

Jack Cush, MD

A 2026 Physician Survey to assess artificial intelligence and its use in Medical Practice has been published and follows earlier surveys around adoption and use. This is the third in a series of longitudinal surveys (prior waves 2023, 2024), enabling meaningful trend analysis. AI adoption has more than doubled in three years and physician sentiment shifting decisively toward cautious optimism.

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Quiz Talk (5.22.2026) Dr. Jack Cush talks of birthdays, quizzes, and journal articles this week on the podcast. https://t.co/LwX0XxgPhn https://t.co/4uVTQo6NLG

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

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True or False: In a registry of SLE patients, RNP-positive patients showed lower disease activity and less prednisone use. If you think you know the answer, prove it in this week's RheumIQ quiz at https://t.co/DTabBEfjj9

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"Everything will be alright in the end; and if its not alright, then its not yet the end" – Suni Kapoor Best exotic Marigold Hotel https://t.co/Yua7t4yoZe
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Meet the RheumNow #EULAR2026 Reporting Team Delivering real-time insights from the forefront of rheumatology: 🩺 Dr. Antoni Chan (@synovialjoints) 🩺 Dr. Mrinalini Dey (@DrMiniDey) 🩺 Dr. Jiha Lee (@JihaRheum) 🩺 Dr. Aurelie Najm (@AurelieRheumo) 🩺 Dr. Janet Pope https://t.co/zpIeGWpL6P
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This is the book of my origins in Medicine; my medical school, St. Georges University (#SGU) that I went to in 1977. A great stroy of unlikely characters, with shared missions and dreams that developed me and thousands of other great Physicians who dramatically changed medical https://t.co/zGZXt6qcUm
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“60-40-20” - Ed Keystone (rumor has it he was actually bidding on a copy of my textbook!)

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Great Lectures; Great Presentations Dr. Jack Cush lectures on giving a great presentation; based on 40 years of lecturing in Rheumatology. https://t.co/AvW8Z7bhkl https://t.co/LeI7oPDRan

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A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT. He knows his time is running out. So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour. He died 5 months later. This is that lecture. The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇 Bookmark it for later https://t.co/tRUH05ysSt

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Mortality in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Story of Decline, Delay, or Plateau? Dr. Elena Myasoedova In this https://t.co/4UQlqwujiR 2026 podcast, Dr. Elena Myasoedova examines mortality trends in RA, exploring whether we are seeing continued decline, delayed impact, or a concerning https://t.co/yUob3Tv0tR

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What is the most widely shared physician concern regarding the use of augmented intelligence? Take this week's RheumIQ quiz to find out. https://t.co/SkXNtYJk2v https://t.co/fOKS5clUz5

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