By Dr Irwin Lim on November 13, 2013

=images"> Courtesy of photobucket.com By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Professor Dirk Elewaut visited us at our Parramatta clinic today. He’s on a ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on November 12, 2013

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist My rheumatology colleague, Andrew Jordan just presented a rheumatoid arthritis case at our GP meeting. A 60-something ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on October 6, 2013

Sometimes, patients need convincing. A rheumatologist's nimble fingers, good looks, and confident persona may not be sufficient. Do I really have ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on October 4, 2013

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Our clinic struggles with this. How to get patients to stop smoking? Frustrating. For the patient. And for us. I nag. ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on October 2, 2013

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist A couple of weeks ago, I was sent this very useful book which I wrote a brief post about. And today, I gave the book ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on September 8, 2013

Sacroiliitis By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist The answer is of course YES. But, my suspicion is that it's rare. In Sydney, many GPs refer chronic back ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on September 2, 2013

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Here's a nice example of sacroiliitis on an Xray of my patient's pelvis. Grade 3 on both sides with erosions and ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on July 28, 2013

Image courtesy of adamr / FreeDigitalPhotos.net By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist She has ankylosing spondylitis. Recent diagnosis. Being treated with ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on June 27, 2013

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist A very important paper was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (link) and it has led to lots of ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on May 27, 2013

Image courtesy of khunaspix at FreeDigitalPhotos.net This post originally appeared as a guest post on the Panaceum blog. The Panaceum blog is updated ...