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.
Definition of stigma for English Language Learners. : 1  a set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something. 2  botany : the top part in the center of a flower which receives the pollen.