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.
The name, stigma (ÏÏÎ¯Î³Î¼Î±), is originally a common Greek noun meaning a mark, dot, puncture, or generally a sign, from the verb ÏÏÎ¯Î¶Ï (to puncture); the related but distinct word stigme (ÏÏÎ¹Î³Î¼Î®) is the classical and post-classical word for geometric point; punctuation mark.or the use of stigma as a numeral, see digamma. For other uses, see stigma. Stigma (Ï) is a ligature of the Greek letters sigma (Ï) and tau (Ï) , which was used in writing Greek between the Middle Ages and the 19th century.