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Rheuminations

What Changes May the Next Decade Bring to Rheumatology?

Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS  |  January 10, 2024

Is it 2024 already? It seems like yesterday that I stuffed all my earthly belongings into my black Volkswagen Jetta and headed from Lexington, Ky., to Iowa City, Iowa, to start my rheumatology fellowship.1 That was 10 years ago. Now, in 2024, as I go online—particularly on social media—and see the various happy, smiling faces…

The Role of Empathy in Therapeutic Relationships

Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS  |  December 8, 2023

I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. I was at a mandatory “training session” on patient communication for all clinicians at my institution. There, I was being coached on how to properly talk to patients. In theory, this isn’t a bad thing—we all need more education on how to facilitate inclusive and equitable conversations with…

Rheum for Everyone, Episode 2: What’s Your Favorite White Blood Cell?

Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS  |  November 13, 2023

In this episode, Dr. Kumar and guest Lindsay Moy, DO, a rheumatology fellow at the University of Iowa, discuss the intersection of immunology and rheumatology. Answer their question on X @BharatKumarMD.

Immunology: What Is It Good For?

Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS  |  November 8, 2023

I was cleaning out an old storage closet in my parents’ house in Florida when I stumbled across some notes I took in medical school. As I leafed through pages and pages of notes filled with doodles and reminders, I found a statement that gave me pause: “Immunology—what is it good for?!” To be honest,…

Design Thinking & The Rheumatologist

Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS  |  October 11, 2023

If you’ve been a long-time reader  of The Rheumatologist, you may have noticed that things look just a little different in this issue. The logo has changed, the font appears distinct, and the bylines are, for lack of a better term, aligned differently. If you’re looking at this online, the menus have changed somewhat, and…

Rheum for Everyone, Episode 1: Design Thinking & the Rheumatologist

Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS  |  October 3, 2023

In this premiere episode, Dr. Kumar discusses what’s new at The Rheumatologist, the deliberate approach we’ve taken to a redesign and how rheumatologists can incorporate human-centered design thinking into their practices.

Ignite the Spark of Joy & Discovery

Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS  |  September 9, 2023

A Roshi (i.e., master) apparently said that in Zen, “there is nothing to believe and everything to discover.” Interestingly enough, I have never been able to confirm who actually said that, which makes this saying about belief and discovery particularly apt. Regardless, I think about those words at least twice a day when I am…

Rheuminations: Why I Don’t Use the Term ‘Stakeholder’

Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS  |  August 13, 2023

Modern healthcare is, for better or for worse, the hybrid of many different fields—some that are expected, such as biomedical science, and others that are less well appreciated, such as astrology and palmistry. One modern contributor to healthcare is management. Nowadays, we’re inundated with all sorts of jargon from the business and policy worlds: turnover,…

Is ‘Resilience’ a Positive Descriptive or an Insidious Bias?

Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS  |  July 10, 2023

Resilience. That word has been living rent free in my head for the past three weeks. And rent free is a bit of understatement. It all began at the end of a very productive clinic, when the trainee and I sat down to discuss our reflections on the interactions with patients that we’d had in…

Don’t Let a Good Mentor Get Away

Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS  |  June 9, 2023

“When you get a good mentor, don’t let ’em be the one that got away.” Richard Brasington Jr., MD, FACP, MACR, told me this about a decade ago when I was a rheumatology fellowship applicant and first met him. It was clear the statement was influenced by his love of fishing. Dr. Brasington’s office was…

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