Letter to the Editor

Dear Dr. Pisetsky,

I just wanted to send you a brief note thanking you for all your articles. I am a busy mom of three girls and work full time in a rheumatology office. I have been in rheumatology for 11 years and I rarely get to travel. When speaking, I occasionally get to venture as far as such exotic destinations as Fargo, North Dakota, or Chicago.

In reading your articles, I feel that I, too, get to venture across Europe and get stuck due to storms and other wild adventures. Your articles make me laugh, delight my soul, and bring a lighter side to the immunology we are drowned with daily.

Thanks for all that you do, and will hopefully continue with in the future.

Iris Zink
ACR-certified rheumatology
nurse practitioner
Beals Institute
Lansing, Mich.

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