Dr. Liang also praises Dr. Holman’s teaching style. “When we presented patients to him as fellows, he would do a piece of the exam or history, and you could see that his style was really collaborative with patients,” he says.
Dr. Liang—who wrote Dr. Holman’s festschrift in collaboration with Drs. Shoor, Lorig, and Harold Goldberg, MD, professor of medicine at Stanford—notes that Dr. Holman never backs away from socially relevant causes. “He is unbelievable, and you’d never know it just by talking to him,” says Dr. Liang. “He’s essentially a modest person.”
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Gretchen Henkel writes the “Metrics in Rheumatology” series.
References
- Liang MH, Goldberg HI, Shoor S, Lorig K. A festschrift in honor of Halsted R. Holman, MD: Action research in health care. Medical Care. 2002;40(4):SII-1-II-2.
- Holman HR. Thoughts on future relationships between physicians, medical students and citizens. Walter Bauer Memorial Lecture. Arthritis Rheum. 1965;8:183.
- Lorig K, Laurin J, Holman HR. Arthritis self-management: a study of the effectiveness of patient education for the elderly. Gerontologist. 1984;24:455.
