Thanks so much for this link Bluesfan - but being the geek I am I've already read it and saved it myself!

Okay I'm trying hard not to begrudge you your Scottish rheum. Mine has now gone part time and will be off by next month the secretary thinks. He's an old school detective type. Someone I know with RA told me he isn't popular with her RA friends because his bedside manner isn't good but I really liked him and he's been very kind to someone I know. My new GP says that every rheum in the hospital is excellent. It really is quite subjective and particular I suppose - like any relationship. But I do feel quite confident in the rheumatology at my new hospital.

However everyone I've met who knows my neurologist, be it neighbours, colleagues or mutual friends - and several patients - say that she is a highly dedicated, kind and lovely woman. She just wasn't with me! But I'm told by a nurse friend that I'm to give her another chance next week, as she was working on the wrong premise that I only had inactive RA. So I'm trying hard to keep the door open. But invisible armour is all ready too just in case she again tells me I'm making a drama out of very little, just "a bit of permanent numbness", over thinking everything and look too well to have a multisystem disease again!