My First Message to the mobile world
Typical patient's comment: You didn't have that beard the last time I saw you! Here we are with the first page of my medical blog, hopefully optimised for mobile phones. I am going to experiment with...
View ArticleEvernote and the Rheumatologist
One of my favourite web tools is Evernote. I use it for clipping articles, URLs or pictures from websites and then going back to put them into lectures, teaching materials, blogs or simply for...
View ArticleThe most important decade for advances in arthritis treatment?
I’m going to vote for 1890-1900 and I’m calling it the decade of the war against pain. Remarkably, three effective analgesic drugs came into being that decade: two were ‘angels’ but one became a...
View ArticleIs Guinness good for you if you have arthritis?
Black is most definitely the color of the Irish national drink. Well – black with a creamy head, anyway. Testament to the power of advertising is the number of patients here who still believe the old...
View ArticleWhat is an antalgic (painful) gait? Let the sensors have their say.
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had his effect. Jonathan Swift One of the things we...
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