My name is Rachel Wolfe and I'm an assistant
professor at Wake Forest Baptist Health in
the Department of Rheumatology.
I'm a rheumatologist, so I focus on autoimmune
diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus.
I became a rheumatologist because I love that
you get to take care of the whole patient.
Our diseases involve all sorts of organs in
different systems in the body, so you get
to take care of the whole patient and not
just one organ system.
My patient care philosophy is that it's a
team effort- that you can't come in as a physician
and just say: This is what we're doing.
You have to work with the patient and sort
of develop a rapport and come up with a plan
together to tackle what ever problem it may
be, whether it's true autoimmune disease or
something that mimics autoimmune disease.
What I love about Winston-Salem is the diversity
of activities.
You can in a short trip be hiking in the mountains
or walking around Salem Lake or even enjoying
all the things to do that there are downtown.
