September is Rheumatic Disease Awareness Month. A month is not enough to encompass all the nuances of the scores of rheumatic diseases. My hope, as both a rheumatologist and as a patient, is that many RDAMs from now, we’ll look back at how quaint it was that we had to worry about such conditions. And, just as importantly, we’ll look back with immense gratitude at the hard work being performed by everyone in this sphere committed to ensuring that such diseases are consigned to the history books.
Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS, is the director of the rheumatology fellowship training program at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and the physician editor of The Rheumatologist. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @BharatKumarMD.
