Professional Topics

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Optimize Patient Scheduling

Staff | March 8, 2012

Optimizing patient schedules is a continuous process that is critical to physician efficiency and satisfied patients. Taking inventory of the scheduling trends in your practice can have a positive influence on tackling appointment templates, which determines patient flow that affects your revenue.

Susac’s Syndrome: Confusion, Expressive Aphasia, Gait Instability

Candace H. Feldman, MD, MPH, Gwendolyn Kane-Wagner, MD | March 8, 2012

A 49-year-old man presented to the hospital with confusion, dysarthria, expressive aphasia, and progressive gait instability.

How to Retire from Your Medical Practice

Steven M. Harris, Esq. | March 8, 2012

If you are a physician nearing retirement, it is important that you plan, discuss, and make contractual agreements that will allow you to accomplish your goals and changing needs.

Challenges and Rewards of a Physician Executive Career

Catherine Kolonko | February 3, 2012

The job of a physician executive offers a different set of challenges for rheumatologists familiar with research and patient care.

Pointers for Rheumatologists Considering AMA Membership

James R. O’Dell, MD | February 3, 2012

Join the AMA. Don’t join because you agree with everything the AMA does. Join so we, as rheumatologists, will continue to have a voice and make a difference.

A Comparison of the Canadian and U.S. Healthcare Systems

Simon M. Helfgott, MD | February 3, 2012

The joys and the hazards of the Canadian single-payer universal healthcare program Canadian and the high-capacity and costly U.S. healthcare system.

A Patient’s Perspective on RA

Lisa C. Glavish | February 3, 2012

I was diagnosed in April 2010, at 44 years old, with seropositive RA; the disease rapidly turned my life upside down.

Trailblazers in Rheumatology

Staff | February 3, 2012

Since the beginning of their medical careers, Rodanthi C. Kitridou, MD, and Bevra H. Hahn, MD, have seen a huge shift in the demographics of the field.

How to Complete Your Maintenance of Certification

Staff | February 3, 2012

If you are holding a time-limited certificate with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), you need to participate in and complete their Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program every 10 years.

ACR Leaders to Converge on Capitol Hill

Staff | February 3, 2012

In early March, leading members of Congress and other key policymakers will meet face to face with volunteer leaders of the ACR.