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Rheumatologist Recalls Personal Experience with RA

May 15, 2015 • By Monica Piecyk, MD

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“What would you do?” now has a new significance.

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May 2015

Life Continues

I am grateful for the remarkable medical advances in rheumatology that have made it possible for me to continue to work and to return to hiking, skiing, biking, knitting and sewing. The roles in my life are no longer as separate as before the onset of RA. I am yet another patient anecdote, but one with a unique perspective.

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Monica Piecyk, MD, is a rheumatologist at New England Baptist Hospital (NEBH). In addition to her work at NEBH, she holds an academic appointment as instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Piecyk enjoys teaching and is a member of the American College of Rheumatology and American College of Physicians. She is board certified in both rheumatology and internal medicine.

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  1. Scher JU, Sczesnak A, Longman RS, et al. Expansion of intestinal Prevotella copri correlates with enhanced susceptibility to arthritis. eLife. 2013;2:e01202.
  2. Orbai A, Smith KC, Bartlett SJ, et al. ‘Stiffness has different meanings, I think, to everyone’: Examining stiffness from the perspective of people living with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Care Res. 2014;66:1662–1672.

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Filed Under: Conditions, Opinion, Patient Perspective, Practice Management, Profiles, Rheumatoid Arthritis Tagged With: Diagnosis, Management, Physician–Patient, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatologist, Speak Out RheumatologyIssue: May 2015

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