69 Followers. A. An internist or primary care physician is often able to treat uncomplicated autoimmune disease. But with the advent of new therapies, specifically biologics which require very skilled management, care by a rheumatologist is desirable.
Stigma is broadly defined as a collection of adverse and unfair beliefs. The stigma around mental health most often leads to the inaccurate and hurtful objectification of people as dangerous and incompetent.
Stigma is a word that comes to us directly from its greek origin, originally meaning 'a mark made by a pointed instrument.' In a more modern definition, that mark is a label or diagnosis that defines the person and is inherently negative or shameful, In botany, stigma denotes the part of a flower that accepts the pollen.