The Last Word
As a specialty society, we need to recognize that the geopolitical issues that affect us in a broad, societal way, such as medical misinformation and the related topic of fake news, are topics we must tackle. While a little outside our historic charge, the ACR is increasingly being asked to take appropriate stands on many social issues because they do affect the health of our patients. Perhaps the issue of our time is medical misinformation.
Dr. Saag
Kenneth G. Saag, MD, MSc, is a professor of medicine, holds the Anna Lois Water endowed chair and directs the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He is the director of the UAB Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, Bone, and Autoimmunity Center. He is also the ACR’s 85th president.
