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Ronan Kavanagh

Ronan Kavanagh is a rheumatologist working in full time private practice in Galway, Ireland. He also writes a regular column for The Medical Independent (link to www.medicalindependent.ie) and runs an annual festival of medical curiosity called dotMED (www.dotmedconference.ie). Follow him on Twitter @ronantkavanagh.

Articles By Ronan Kavanagh

Methotrexate Update

I was delighted to see that investigators presenting work at EULAR 2018 haven’t lost interest in our old friend methotrexate, with a number of abstracts examining issues of safety, dose and route of administration.

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Changing my Mind at EULAR

Each year I attend I hope that I’m going to come across something that changes my practice and this year, I think I may have struck gold at a session on Giant Cell arteritis at EULAR in Amsterdam.

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Midlife Plateau

Despite regular attendance at medical meetings and despite fulfilling regulatory requirements for our specialty, I’m not sure how much I learn that changes the way I practice medicine. So I recently persuaded a colleague to come and coach me, inviting him to observe me for a morning in clinic. This was the first time I had been observed in this way since I was a medical student. A little daunting, but after a while I largely forgot he was there. Then he gave me some feedback. 

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