Know Your Unknown Unknowns

Rumsfeld was not famous for listening to other people’s opinions. You do not have to be a politician like Lloyd Bentsen to look at me and say, “I knew Donald Rumsfeld and, David, you are no Donald Rumsfeld.” I want your opinion, Dear Reader, and hope you write in to me at [email protected].

I will give you a choice of topics, although you could write on both.

Here they are:

1. In the face of evidence of GCA in the aorta, would you recommend glucocorticoid therapy in the post-op period? If yes, why? If no, why not?
2. If you recommended steroids and the surgeons were reluctant, how would you convince them to change their mind and start treatment right away? What evidence would you cite?

I promise that The Rheumatologist will print as many of answers we receive as possible.

I will make another promise. I will not give a press conference on my views.

Dr. Pisetsky is physician editor of The Rheumatologist and professor of medicine and immunology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.