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Flipbooks: Patient and Family Education Tools

Aryan Gopinath & Srilatha Kothandaraman, MD  |  

A school science project demonstrates that flipbooks can be a useful educational tool for patients and their families to learn about rheumatic conditions and their treatment.

Meet the ACR’s Advocacy Team

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It’s an election year, and ACR staff are excited about the possibility of moving key initiatives, such as Medicare reimbursement, across the finish line. But they need members’ help to do so.

When Rheumatologists Have Rheumatic Diseases

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  “I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”1 These profound words from Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, Linda R. Meier…

Rheum After 5: Dr. Usman Malik on the Art of Writing

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Novice writers often wait months, sometimes even years, before their first piece is published. However, Usman T. Malik, MBBS, shares a different experience. His letter to the editor of Bachon ka Pakistan, a Pakistani children’s publication, was published shortly after being submitted. He was just 7 years old. Dr. Malik is now an assistant professor…

Rheumatology’s Systems-Based Thinking Plays Well on Capitol Hill

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One of the great joys of rheumatology is that it prioritizes systems-based thinking. Whether integrating data from radiographic imaging or piecing together a puzzling case of autoimmunity, rheumatologists are tasked with understanding how systems fundamentally work. In fact, this emphasis on systems-based thinking is often what draws and keeps the best and smartest physicians within…