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Virtual Reality Therapy Is Feasible for Rheumatology Patients

  |  Issue: January 2021  |  

Ruth Jessen Hickman, MD, is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Medicine. She is a freelance medical and science writer living in Bloomington, Ind.

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