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Administrators & Payers Have Hijacked Our Medical Records
I attended medical school in the 1960s, when Dr. Lawrence Weed reinvented the medical record to organize and leverage the physician’s patient evaluation for clarity and quality of care—what he dubbed “the problem-oriented medical record.”1,2 My internal medicine house officer training at Massachusetts General placed a high value on efficient, effective medical records and communication…
Rheumatologists’ Pay Increases for 3rd Year in a Row
Although compensation in the U.S. healthcare system still favors procedure-based specialties, rheumatologists have seen a pay raise over the past three years, according to the 2018 Medscape Physician Compensation Report…
Advanced Practice Clinicians May Help Close the Workforce Gap
GLENDALE, ARIZ.—Arizona is a microcosm of America’s challenges in reconciling the rheumatology workforce to growing patient demand, as quantified in the ACR’s Workforce Study of 2015.1 So it was timely this year for the Phoenix Rheumatology Association to sponsor its 1st Annual Strategic Training for Rheumatology Advanced Practice Clinicians Symposium. (Note: Advanced practice clinicians [APCs]…
The 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting Program Preview
Save the date for the 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, Oct. 19–24 in Chicago. Connect with your colleagues for an unmatched educational experience featuring exceptional sessions by leading rheumatology experts. The ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting is your gateway to global rheumatology education. With more than 450 sessions—including The Great Debate—the meeting provides boundless opportunities for professional development,…
Sessions to Check Out During the 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
With more than 450 sessions, the 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, is your gateway to global rheumatology education. Here is a preview of a few sessions attendees can look forward to…
Strategies for Striking Work–Life Balance
Making time to advance your career and enjoy family life is no easy task. One busy rheumatologist, educator and mom shares her strategies for success…
AMA House of Delegates 2018 Annual Meeting Recap
On June 8–13, the AMA House of Delegates (HOD) came together in Chicago for its 2018 Annual Meeting. With the recent change in apportionment of geographic and specialty delegates now equal to each other, more than 600 members of the HOD were present, with several hundred staff and attendees from the AMA and other medical…
Tips & Tools for Dealing with Bad Patient Outcomes
Bad things happen to good rheumatologists—and to their patients—and can have profound personal and professional consequences for the doctor. Sometimes recommended treatments can have predictable, but devastating, side effects. Even if the rheumatologist does everything right according to evidence-based best practice, patients can still have bad outcomes, even die—with resulting feelings of sadness, anger, guilt…
Ethics Forum: What to Do When an Autoimmune Patient Needs a Transplant?
Despite our best efforts and modern interventions, we still have patients in the intensive care unit with organ failure. Although renal failure can be mitigated by dialysis, patients with cardiac or respiratory failure secondary to active autoimmune disease raise difficult clinical and ethical issues. Two recent cases, both with organ failure, led us to examine…
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