On June 25, 2008, the American College of Rheumatology Research and Education Foundation received a letter from Sujata Sarkar, MD, one of the first recipients of the ACR REF/Arthritis Foundation Bridge Funding Award. In that letter Dr. Sarkar wrote, “I am very thankful to you … This award has come to me at a very crucial and vulnerable time in my academic career as a junior researcher.” The crucial and vulnerable time to which Dr. Sarkar refers is the time when she would need to search for alternative funding to pay for her rheumatology research career—or leave academia altogether.
An American in Paris
Visiting a historical city inspires reflections on the history and progress of rheumatology
The Difficult Patient Interaction in Rheumatology
How to smooth tough patient encounters
The Quest for Olympic Gold
What should physicians make of sick athletes’ success stories?
Can You Mentor By Committee?
Committees lack the one-on-one relationship that is the backbone of early career training
Learning From the Giants of Medicine
Medical training has become easier—but is that an improvement?
Lessons from a Different Bench
What can college athletics show us about teaching medicine?
To Document or to Doctor? That Is the Question
Is paper pushing taking away from patient care?
A New Twist in the Consumerization of Healthcare
Who are the new medical consumers? These people behave like medical “shoppers” because they are more mobile than previous generations and are empowered by the Internet. They can research and form opinions about diseases, treatment options, and the best route to recovery—all before stepping foot in to an exam room. This emerging population has been taught that in order to be a health-wise consumer and to get the most value, a patient must take an active role in his or her care.
Strength from Weakness
Perhaps physicians should look at the doors disability opens, too
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