Everything You Need to Know to Lead a Full Life • Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects one percent of the population, or a total of about 2.5 million Americans • RA is three times more common in women than in men • RA generally strikes between the ages of 20 and 50 • RA has no
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Adapted from a talk at The SLE Workshop at Hospital for Special Surgery Warning About Misuse of the Term What is Vasculitis? What Vasculitis is Not When Does Vasculitis Occur in Rheumatic Disease? When is Vasculitis an Important Complication of an Autoimmune Disease? Diseases in Which Vasculitis is the Specific Illness Vasculitis by the Size
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Guarded Prognosis: A Doctor and his Patients Talk about Chronic Disease and How to Cope With It Using his patients’ personal stories to illustrate dramatically how medical care once worked and how it works today, a concerned and caring physician makes clear just why he fears the current system has a very poor prognosis.
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Guarded Prognosis: A Doctor and his Patients Talk about Chronic Disease and How to Cope With It With 35 years’ experience as a physician, Lockshin remembers the days before Medicare, Medicaid and HMOs. Working particularly with lupus patients, he has accrued vast knowledge of chronic illness, insurance and hospital administration. Here, in the voice
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Guarded Prognosis: A Doctor and his Patients Talk about Chronic Disease and How to Cope With It The subtitle tells much more about this book than the title. For doctors do not treat aggregates of patients, they treat individual humans. Lockshin argues that governments, insurance companies, hospitals, and HMOs should listen to individuals rather than
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Guarded Prognosis: A Doctor and his Patients Talk about Chronic Disease and How to Cope With It From Our Editors Like James Herriott, Oliver Sacks and Lewis Thomas, Michael Lockshin teaches us about illness and health by telling stories about medicine. His stories focus not on disease, but the risks of the health care system.
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