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Secondary insurance to cover the essential healthcare expenses that your primary insurer does not cover is absurd. We cannot solve the healthcare crisis with more and more private insurance.

⁦Governor JB Pritzker⁩ ⁦Mayor Brandon Johnson⁩ Trying to schedule a vaccine for my mom, who is a healthcare worker. No availability - ever - in the entire Chicagoland area at Walgreens. Why is Walgreens listed as a vaccination site on the Illinois website?

As vaccine deliveries ramp up, Illinois will expand Phase 1B eligibility on Feb 25 to those with underlying conditions, as defined by the CDC. This includes people with a higher risk if they contract COVID, such as cancer survivors. For a full list: cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…

Rush University Medical Center has been awarded a $3.5 million contract to develop a lab for detecting new strains of COVID-19 and determining which strains are spreading the fastest and where. rsh.md/3u19YUS

I am delighted to share the approval of Actemra for SSc related ILD. The FDA was pragmatic and approved the medication, based on large clinically meaningful effect on lung function. #scleroderma #hope U-M Department of Internal Medicine Genetec Inc. gene.com/media/press-re…

Proud to be part of this fantastic collaboration with Brian Boyarsky et al -74% of patients with rheumatic disease had detectable Ab after 1st dose of #COVID19Vaccine -patients on RTX and MMF less likely to have detectable Ab #GetVaccinated @ARD_BMJ ard.bmj.com/content/early/…

Check out our collaborative study of 404 RMD patients s/p 2 doses of COVID vaccine. 94% of participants had a response after D2, but poor response on certain immunosuppressants (esp. ritux) ard.bmj.com/content/early/… Caoilfhionn Connolly Brian Boyarsky William Werbel MD PhD LisaChristopherStine Dorry Segev

ACTION NEEDED: We formed the Coalition to Advance Antiracism in Medicine (Coalition To Advance Antiracism in Medicine) to ensure federal oversight and legislative protection of Black and minoritized healthcare professionals and patients in medicine. We need your help! 1/🧵 thecaam.com

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There is a very nice handout from @scleroderma on hand and face excercises in #Scleroderma that I use a lot for my patients! It works!! Fesca #SclerodermaAwarenessMonth

Our study explaining the pathophysiology of acute COVID has been published by ERJ, the flagship scientific journal of the European Respiratory Society ERS publications. Here, we describe how severe COVID-19 is NOT a viral pneumonia, but a post-viral autoimmune attack of the lung.

I’m going to post this, and I’m going to step away for a hot minute to get some air. I would appreciate any motivational quotes, funny gifs, or pet pictures. Ty.

Autoimmune disorders and connective tissue disorders are not the same things

Best hospital advertising campaign idea - “No out-of-network providers.” The first hospital that does this will have ALL of the elective surgeries.

Being a local rheumatologist (at some point in time at least) should be a prerequisite for giving advice to local rheumatologists

There are so many barriers to physical therapy - high copays, high paperwork burden for physicians, PT deserts. The US healthcare system makes non-pharmacologic treatment of arthritis so difficult.

In medicine, the volume of the argument and the strength of the evidence are usually inversely correlated.