It’s November, the month of gratitude and stress. What better time to talk about something we’re both grateful for and occasionally grumble about: steroids! (No, not the kind that make you look like a bodybuilder. We’re talking about the medical kind: prednisone, methylprednisolone, hydrocortisone, and their many cousins.) When Do We Use Steroids? Steroids are the Swiss Army knives of internal medicine. We reach for them when your immune system is a little too enthusiastic/di