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Letter: Thanks and Farewell

John Luetkemeyer, MD | April 6, 2012

Dr. Pisetsky, I want to personally thank you for the time spent by you as editor of The Rheumatologist.

Pain is a Tricky Thing to Treat, or Even Evaluate

Simon M. Helfgott, MD | March 8, 2012

Rheumatology is such a gratifying and emotionally rewarding medical specialty. There is no better feeling than helping patients with conditions whose proper diagnosis and management have eluded other practitioners. A patient with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) presents with pain, and a major clinical tenet of DISH has been its lack of association with pain.

ARHP Members Earn Leadership Position, Award

Staff | March 8, 2012

Kamala Nola, PharmD, MS, was inducted as the 2011-2012 president-elect of the Tennessee Pharmacists Association; Danuta Bujak, PhD, FNP, an ARHP member, was honored as the recipient of the 2011 Yale School of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Award.

A Comparison of the Canadian and U.S. Healthcare Systems

Simon M. Helfgott, MD | February 3, 2012

The joys and the hazards of the Canadian single-payer universal healthcare program Canadian and the high-capacity and costly U.S. healthcare system.

A Patient’s Perspective on RA

Lisa C. Glavish | February 3, 2012

I was diagnosed in April 2010, at 44 years old, with seropositive RA; the disease rapidly turned my life upside down.

Trailblazers in Rheumatology

Staff | February 3, 2012

Since the beginning of their medical careers, Rodanthi C. Kitridou, MD, and Bevra H. Hahn, MD, have seen a huge shift in the demographics of the field.