In fact, I am afraid that for every disease, nothing is more important than proper awareness. A typical analogy is the proverbial “sickness in a hurry”. With more outpatient visits, it is easy to find some common misconceptions and even common sense errors among patients. As an old disease, rheumatoid arthritis, although much heard, much said, but some basic common sense, and is not well known by the patients. 1, rheumatoid arthritis is not a difficult disease. Although the cause of the disease is still uncertain, but the relevant classification standards are constantly updated, early diagnosis is no longer a problem. In terms of medication, especially with the advent of biologics, there are already many options for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. There are slow and inexpensive ones, and fast and expensive ones. The doctor will inform the patient of the advantages and disadvantages of different options, and the patient will then choose the option that suits him or her according to his or her economic conditions. 2, rheumatoid arthritis can not be cured. The reason is simple, even the specific cause of the disease is not yet clear, how can there be a cure? Although there are very few patients eventually cured, but the number is very small, do not have a fluke mentality. Chinese people who have this disease often have the following practices: a. rely on strong perseverance to hold on. I have seen many patients who came to the doctor only after their joints had been severely deformed, and asked him why he had not seen a doctor after so many years of pain. There are actually quite a few people who boast of their great perseverance. Of course, the economic hardship behind it may be a big reason. But please remember, you can’t get a good result by holding on to your joints until they are deformed and paralyzed, and you may have to have major surgery to make ends meet! The replacement of a joint 50,000-100,000, compared to the standard treatment that should be received when the disease is less severe is much more expensive! b. Visiting famous doctors. Such patients are simply like cattle! Often either recommended by neighbors, or advertising, and children and relatives to buy “special drugs” by the way of travel to send gifts. Many patients have traveled to the north and south of the country, after trying all the magic pills, the joints are still disabled! Here, in addition to criticizing the media’s irresponsibility, the judiciary’s laissez-faire, I would like to advise you: that is swallowed into the stomach to cure the medicine ah! If you don’t know the ingredients, how can you believe that it will work and be safe? One of the most incredible patients lives across the street from our hospital, just a 100-meter walk away, and was actually paralyzed before being carried into the hospital by his children. A question, sick for 12 years, the country around the ancestral secret recipes have tasted, this is the first time to the hospital at home! c, poor compliance. What do you mean by poor compliance, is not obedient. The doctor let him eat 3 kinds of drugs, he ate 2 kinds; let him eat 4, he ate 3; let him come next month, he will come next year! The treatment process was a mess! Step by step, the best time for treatment is lost. d. The right way. With the above three counterfactuals, I believe that smart patients should know how to deal with rheumatoid arthritis in the right way. Early diagnosis, early treatment, standardized treatment, to control rather than cure as the goal. 3, rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by disabling. Although this disease shortens life expectancy, it is often not directly fatal. Not fatal but make people can not move, sometimes more unpleasant than directly fatal. Therefore, our highest goal in treating rheumatoid arthritis is to avoid serious joint destruction, to intervene actively in the early inflammatory phase, to stop the inflammation as much as possible, to delay the destruction of bone as much as possible, so that every rheumatoid arthritis does not have to be solved on the operating table.