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Rheum with a View: How Should We Train Rheumatology Fellows?

Richard S. Panush, MD  |  Issue: August 2013  |  

It has been willed where will and power are one.

—Dante Alighieri

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Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.

—Albert Einstein

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Dr. Panush is professor of medicine, division of rheumatology, department of medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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