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Best of 2023: How Being a Patient Taught Me to Be a Better Doctor
When I was accepted into medical school, my Dad (a trauma surgeon) taught me that as a doctor I should not judge and do my best not to let my personal views interfere with how I manage and interact with my patients.
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ICYMI: Here at Last: Treatment Options for VEXAS
We have known about the VEXAS (vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic) syndrome for nearly 3 years, but there has been relatively little to say about how to treat it. To date there have been over twice as many publications about VEXAS (263 publications) as there have been patients described with respect to treatment strategies (116 patients). One of the late breaking abstracts may finally have rectified this imbalance.
Read ArticleICYMI: Are Rheumatologists doing Enough for Cervical Cancer?
Should rheumatologists be counseling patients on cervical cancer prevention and screening?
Read ArticleICYMI: New Biomarkers and Therapeutics Show Potential in Still's Disease
Adult-onset Still’s disease is a rare complex, sporadic, systemic autoinflammatory disease similar to systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis characterized by sustained fever, salmon-colored rash, and arthritis. The 2023 ACR convergence featured several abstracts spotlighting developments in understanding and managing this complex disease spectrum.
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