I had a wonderful time in Rome, due in small part to the wonderful wines I drank with family and friends. When I got home, enjoying those same wines again made me wonder about the placebo effect.
Rheums do not live by wits and cytokine blockers alone. We need tools, equipment and material goods to be the diagnostician, communicator, and technical wizards that triple-threat rheumatologists propound to be. Not long ago I ranked my top and bottom 5 joints. Now we tackle the most and least important tools of the trade in rheumatology.
Use your ICD-9 codes today and tomorrow 9/30/15, and then use ICD-10 codes only on 10/1/15 and thereafter. Do not submit both ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes on any day as these will be rejected by CMS.
Why let your practice mix grow according to word-of-mouth, preferred provider listings and beauty parlor gossip? Be all you can be with a marketing plan for your practice and career.
A rheumatologist some of you may know gave me a book that changed my life. My wine-drinking life, that is.
Winning is everything – in football and in medicine. Rheumatologists have achieved many successes but still struggle to win against a handful of rheumatic foes. This retrospective examines past wins and losses and helps us to look ahead to a new season.
Every physician struggles with time and listening. Modern medicine infringes on both of these - and they may be the most humanistic things a physician can give.
RA patient complicated by invasive fungal infection with coccidioidomycosis is discussed by Drs. Tesser and Cush
A routine visit, followed by a few post-visit comments from the familly, is all it takes to remind me how great it is to be a rheumatologist.
Is off-label drug use an example of "free speech"? Do off-label use guidelines affect every day practice or the way Pharma promotes its product outside of the indications for which it was approved?
Rheumatoid arthritis affects women in their child-bearing years and many will face the issue of pregnancy and RA management at some point. Here are11 considerations for those managing RA patients who wish to become pregnant.
I was methodically signing off on stack of refill requests, until I find one I don’t recognize. The patient is mine but the prescription (under my name) is not. It’s for a specialty compounded cream...
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