In caring for patients with chronic pain, I have tried all kinds of treatments to reduce bothersome symptoms, hoping to achieve improvements that are better than the usual one or two points on a visual analog scale. The list of these treatments is long—no doubt, you have tried the same ones—and include the expected array…
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How a Rheumatologist Thinks: Cognition and Diagnostic Errors in Rheumatology
The Institute of Medicine has reported that each year up to 98,000 deaths result from iatrogenic injury and error.1 Autopsy series have suggested a 15% error rate in the practice of medicine. These numbers are surprising and concerning and raise important questions about how we practice medicine. What kind of errors do we make as…
How to Provide Compassionate Care When Touch Is Painful
Providing compassionate care when touch is painful
From Bimbo to Barajas Airport: Some Surreal Moments and a Ticket Home
Some surreal moments and a ticket home
Drug Updates
Information on New Approvals and Medication Safety
Revisiting Rounds: Lessons from the General Medicine Ward
Lessons from the general medicine ward
Omeract How to Get into the “Act”
Meet this international organization that focuses on rheumatology outcome measures
Letters to the Editor: Feedback from the Readers
No Such Thing as Fibromyalgia
Don’t Get Lost in Translation: Helping rheumatology Patients with Limited English Skills
Helping rheumatology patients with limited English skills
Turn Down the Pain Volume
Fibromyalgia’s evolution from discrete entity to prototypical central pain syndrome