Main Line Rheumatology & Osteoporosis Continues to Function

As we remain under what looks to be a long siege, Main Line Rheumatology & Osteoporosis continues to function. We are still seeing patients with rheumatologic emergencies, patients needing infusions and are ramped up to do TeleMed via the Internet and telephone. We are using Zoom, Doxy.me, as well as FaceTime. We are also “seeing” new patients until we are able to follow up with them in the office. If you have a fever, cough or have been exposed to somebody in the last 2 weeks whom you suspect to have Covid 19, out of respect to other patients and our hard-working staff, we ask that you do not come to the office.

If you are over 60 and need to do grocery shopping, you may already know that Whole Food and Acme open an hour earlier at 7 AM and Giant opens at 6 am. Whole Food is now only limiting 100 people into the store at a time which translates into about 3 customers every 10 minutes depending on the time you get there. We would recommend trying to go early or late to avoid this bottleneck. Trader Joe is not opening earlier for seniors.

When you shop, remember to wear latex gloves if you have them and wipe down the handle of the grocery cart, your car door handle and steering wheel. If you pull your credit card out of your pocket, take off your glove and remember to wash your hands again as well as wiping down the credit card and your cellphone. I never realized how much I touch my face but we should all try to make every effort to avoid that.

The newspapers are full of websites to try to entertain yourself at home including all kinds of music, museums and activities. One of my favorite pastimes is listening to Dr. Harder’s wife, Debra Lew Harder, M.D., on WRTI 90.1 on Saturdays from 6 AM to noon and some weekdays from 10 AM to 2 PM. I cannot imagine anyone who knows more about music, has such a soothing voice and in her own right is a much recorded concert pianist.

Lastly, try to reach out to your neighbors who are living alone. We can get through these unprecedented difficult times.

It’s Important to Get The Right Diagnosis and Care for Painful Autoimmune Conditions

Many rheumatologic diseases are difficult to sort out in the beginning. New York Times medical writer, Jane Brody, describes polymyalgia, an inflammatory disease affecting muscles and connective tissue in the shoulder/pelvic region, and the overlapping and more serious temporal or giant cell arteritis, involving blood vessels to the scalp and the eyes with potential risk of blindness. Talk to your primary care physician and consider seeing a rheumatologist if you have these symptoms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/well/live/arteritis-autoimmune-conditions.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fwell&action=click&contentCollection=well%C2%AEion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

 

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Main Line Rheumatology Congratulates Lankenau Medical Center, Voted one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals

https://www.healthgrades.com/quality/americas-best-hospitals-for-2019

The doctors at Main Line Rheumatology are honored to be affiliated with Lankenau Medical Center as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals™. Just announced, Lankenau received recognition in the top 1% of hospitals in the nation for consistently providing overall clinical excellence across a broad spectrum of conditions and procedures year over year. The premier distinction rewards hospitals that consistently exhibit exceptional, comprehensive quality care, and according to statistics, patients are more likely to have a successful treatment without major complications—and have a lower chance of dying—at America’s Best Hospitals.

Main Line Rheumatology News

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Gary V. Gordon, MD, FACP, FACR Awarded 2018 Rheumatologist of the Year by The Arthritis Foundation

Gary V. Gordon, MD, FACP, FACR, Chief of Rheumatology, Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA received the 2018 Rheumatologist of the Year Award from The Arthritis Foundation. He is pictured with Holly Maddams, Executive Director of the Arthritis Foundation, Eastern PA. Dr. Gordon was honored on October 5, 2018 at The Arthritis Foundation’s Bone Bash, held at Mutter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. 

We Win Awards!

Main Line Rheumatology’s Gary V. Gordon, MD, FACP, FACR and Thomas Harder, MD have been named 2018 “Top Doctors” by Philadelphia Magazine and Main Line Today Magazine. Also Amy Lundholm, DO was named a 2018 “Top Doctor” by Main Line Today Magazine.

Dr  Gordon was awarded “Top Doctor” by Philadelphia Magazine for years 2018, 2016, 2015 and 2014, and by Main Line Today Magazine for years 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013.

Dr. Harder was awarded “Top Doctor” by Main Line Today Magazine for years 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015.