(1) They recruited more than 100 patients who met American College of Rheumatology criteria for fibromyalgia from referrals to a London teaching hospital's rheumatology clinic.(2) Dr. Handelsman, a specialist in rheumatology and internal medicine, examined Ms. Mitchell in July 2001 at Dr. Chin's request.(3) On an established test of medical literacy, 15% of patients attending one hospital rheumatology clinic were found to be illiterate.(4) Referral to specialties such as orthopaedics, rheumatology , or maxillofacial surgery was linked to the small minority of patients with pain or sensory symptoms as the initial symptom.(5) There is a four year waiting list for rheumatology in the Western Health Board.(6) We involved rheumatologists because students working in rheumatology meet patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthropathy.(7) He was referred to a paediatric rheumatologist who diagnosed him as having symmetrical polyarticular arthritis because of involvement of shoulders, knees, and ankles.(8) All of my patients who see orthopedists or rheumatologists for their tendonitis or arthritis come back with Celebrex or Vioxx rather than ibuprofen or naproxen.(9) Patients' reservations appear as a consistent factor in their decision making about drugs and have been explored in the context of epilepsy, rheumatological problems, and hypertension.(10) The goal of the expert patient programme is not to turn people with Parkinson's disease into amateur neurologists or people with arthritis into hobby rheumatologists , setting them up to bully and compete with their doctors.(11) Sixty per cent of the patients had rheumatological symptoms.(12) In an update in nonpulmonary critical care, Schlesinger and Leatherman discuss rheumatological problems in critically ill patients.(13) There was no history of arthritis, sicca syndrome or obvious rheumatological problem.(14) Here, my patients expect to see a rheumatologist for their arthritis, a dermatologist for their acne, and a cardiologist for their chest pain, even if it clearly is not coming from their heart.(15) Fortunately Oliver developed no neurological or rheumatological sequelae and made a full and uneventful recovery, but he had given his parents considerable worry during his illness.
