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Rheumatologist Reflects on Her Path from Practice to Teaching to Research

  |  Issue: September 2022  |  

Hearing her story of a roundabout arrival at her passion may help younger trainees, she believes. “Fellows often think the first job they take after fellowship is going to be it. They have tremendous pressure and may feel that if they make the wrong decision it will affect their whole life. But life is long, and there is plenty of time to do plenty of things!”

Gretchen Henkel is a health and medical journalist based in California.

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