John H. Stone
Editor

2010

Once when I was an intern, an attending rheumatologist bemoaned the number of decisions he had to make when caring for a single complex patient. Which dose of prednisone? When to taper? Which steroid-sparing agent to add, or whether to add one at all? Was an ACE inhibitor a good idea in a patient with a serum creatinine of 3.5 mg/dL? When to employ Pneumocystis prophylaxis, and when to stop it?