In Conversation With… Joyce Chang, MD MSCE
“Infection is probably the biggest morbidity and mortality risk early on, and steroids dramatically increase the risk of infection." Joyce Chang, MD MSCE is a pediatric rheumatologist at Boston ...
In Conversation With... John H. Stone, MD MPH
“Steroids have a role in treating so many diseases - and yet, they do not cure any of them.” John H. Stone, MD MPH is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Edward A. Fox Chair in ...
In Conversation With… Wen Zhang, MD PhD
“We have a saying in China, ‘to turn pale at the mention of a tiger’, and this describes the fear many patients show when told they need to be prescribed steroids.” Wen Zhang, MD PhD is a Professor ...
In Conversation With… David Jayne, MD
“I think we have a real problem in how we deliver steroid reduction, and that in part is due to the complexity of constantly changing doses.” David Jayne, MD is a clinical nephrologist at ...
In Conversation With… Lisa Christopher-Stine, MD MPH
“Steroids are often a necessary evil – they are phenomenally beneficial in the short term, but they're terrible in the long term. We probably underestimate the amount of suffering that patients ...
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