By Dr Irwin Lim on October 30, 2012

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist I feel saddened when a patient walks into my office with hands like these. Such damage. As rheumatologists, we ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on October 14, 2012

I wrote "In my hands, Methotrexate is NOT chemotherapy" after a twitter conversation with @fridawrites and @RheumEpi. It was a message that I have ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on October 10, 2012

Methotrexate is a very useful medication. Rheumatologists would all agree. We use it for rheumatoid arthritis and many other types of autoimmune ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on October 5, 2012

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Out of the blue. He was cooking when he felt a little snap. It wasn't particularly painful but the ring finger ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on September 13, 2012

I was involved in an inservice for our BJC Health physiotherapists and exercise physiologists. Our team already know about rheumatoid arthritis but ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on August 30, 2012

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist I was recently in a meeting of 7 rheumatologists. The majority were Generation X-ers. The conversation turned to ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on August 2, 2012

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist I met a new patient this week with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis. She has both the rheumatoid factor and the ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on October 2, 2011

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist When the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis is confirmed, it is now standard practice for rheumatologists to commence ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on June 19, 2011

By Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist At BJC Health, we spend a lot of time educating patients about their disease. In particular, we spend a lot of time at ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on June 13, 2011

By Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Up to 20% of patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) have a relatively good prognosis, with occasional flares and low ...