The Indian News, Volume 22, Issue 7 (October 1981)

Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research (MFN-CAHR) and the Manitoba Network Environment of Aboriginal Health Research (NEAHR

British Journal of Rheumatology 1992;31:145-148 EDITORIALS RHEUMATOLOGY AND RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH,

THE study by Williams and his colleagues [1] raises the questions: What is the rheumatologist's job description? How should he dispense his time between seeing patients and training his staff and in what directions should he lead his researchers? There could be as many answers as there are rheumatologists. One feature of life as a consultant in Britain is freedom to play the consultant game constructively in many ways. The absence of a rigid job description allows him to do what he is best at. How he spends his time depends largely on what his colleagues consult him about. This in turn depends on how they perceive his fields of interest as judged by his publications and background. His hobby horses, in fact. But the National Health Service is not just a hippodrom