Avert Rheum’s Coming Crisis

No doubt about it, I said to myself as the sound of drums pummeled the air and the lights of Barcelona shimmered in the falling darkness, it is time to think outside the box. Let us create a grand vision for rheumatology and raise $1 billion for our future.

As I learned from visiting Sagrada Família, if it takes a hundred years, so what? For something great in the world, it is more important when we start than when we finish.

Dr. Pisetsky is physician editor of The Rheumatologist and professor of medicine and immunology at Duke University Medical Center.