By Dr Irwin Lim on March 5, 2019

I’m sorry that I’ve been missing from this blog. I was galvanised to start blogging in late 2010 to try and rectify community attitudes to ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on September 19, 2017

We’ve been trying to understand the people who seek help from us at BJC Health. At our rheumatology clinics, we see around 3900 new patients a year.  ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on July 17, 2016

We’ve made a lot of mistakes with branding and marketing over the years. Our name change from The Bone & Joint Clinic to BJC Health was in retrospect ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on September 30, 2015

My mate, Dr Rob Russo, was asking me about negative comments on doctors made by patients on the web. He was wondering how these could be monitored. I ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on May 20, 2015

Courtesy of Jenny Poole, Flicker I'm currently enrolled in my first MOOC. That's Massive Open Online Course. Yup, I didn't know about these either ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on May 12, 2014

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Our clinic's been developing more and more resources for patient education. A person given a serious diagnosis of a ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on December 22, 2013

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist This year has flown by, frighteningly quickly. I think that implies that it was busy and overall enjoyable. Writing ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on December 15, 2013

Image courtesy of photostock/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist As I read patient comments on social media, I get the sense that ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on November 11, 2013

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist 2 more GP talks will end my speaking engagements for the year. Next week, with my fellow rheumatologists, Herman Lau, ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on October 27, 2013

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist 7.30pm is a busy time at the Lim household. The kids attempting to finish some homework, the violin and piano are ...