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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on July 27, 2005
Rheumatology 2005 44(10):1210-1211; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kei030
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EDITORIAL

Musculoskeletal general practitioners with special interests: where are we up to?

E. M. Hay and A. Adebajo1

Haywood Hospital, Stoke on Trent and Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, Keele University and 1 Department of Rheumatology, Barnsley District General Hospital, Barnsley, UK

Correspondence to: E. M. Hay, Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, Keele University, Newcastle under Lyme ST5 5BG, UK. E-mail: e.m.hay@keele.ac.uk

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Rheumatology seems peculiar amongst all the medical specialities in having an ongoing identity crisis about what the speciality represents. An often-heated debate, which started many decades ago, continues to address such fundamental issues as how best to diagnose (lump or split); which patients to treat (are we really ‘inflammationologists’?); who should treat the patients (doctors versus nurses); and where they should be treated (primary or secondary care). Although understandable, such debates can draw attention away from our united goal: to improve the care of patients with musculoskeletal pain across diagnostic categories, across organizational boundaries and across professions.

What needs no debate is the fact that musculoskeletal problems are common, are a major reason for pain and disability at the individual level, and have a major impact on society in terms of health . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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