Information for Physicians
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best care - with great care
Dr. Lehman is the author
of many textbook chapters and articles on the care of children and young adults
with rheumatic diseases. He practices in
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- Guidelines
for referral to a pediatric rheumatologist
- A brief review of rheumatic
diseases in childhood
- Knowledge self assessment test
- Pediatric
Rheumatology Textbooks and resources from amazon.com
- Newsletters of interest to
physicians
- Announcements
- Cyclophosphamide
for childhood systemic lupus erythematosus
- Post-strep reactive arthritis
- what you need to know
- Scleroderma - can we do
anything?
- Lyme disease
- What
to do about positive ANAs?
- Children with stomach
complaints
PEDIATRIC
RHEUMATOLOGY FELLOWSHIP TRAINING
AT THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY IN
For more
information you may wish to consult my book – This
book is written to answer questions that non-rheumatologists have at a level
that is accessible
both to general physicians and to parents who
may always be asking you for more information.
My
book –click here to order at a discount from Amazon.com!!
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It’s not just
growing pains.
A guide to childhood muscle, bone, and joint pain,
rheumatic diseases and the latest treatments
“Dr. Tom Lehman’s experience and compassion are evident on every page of this
book, and they help guide the reader—child, parent,
and healthcare professional alike – through the
world of childhood arthritis. This book
is an absolute gem written with a single goal in mind: improve the lives of kids with arthritis.” -- Jack Klippel, M.D. President and CEO of the Arthritis
Foundation
“Dr. Lehman has given parents and families of children with
arthritis the first book that speaks to the parent and child as equals. His book explains the illnesses, the
medications, the lab tests, and the disease course in simple, understandable
lay language and givens them valuable insight into how a pediatric
rheumatologist thinks. Bravo!”-- Charles Spencer, M.D.,
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics,
Click here to see the table of
contents
It
has always been a frustration trying to answer the many questions I have
received from people over the web. I can’t
take the time and give them the detail I would like to. I have to take care of my patients. This book is a distillation of my experience
answering questions for parents and health professionals over 25 years of
practice. If you want to know about the
diseases, the tests, the medications, or how to be sure you are getting the
best care– If you are the family member of a child with joint pains, this book will give you the answers. If you are a general physician, a
pediatrician, or a nurse who cares for children with these diseases it will
answer many of the questions families ask you, and you can recommend it to
them. It will also answer many of your
questions about what shots to give, what precautions to take, and the other
questions families, pediatricians, and other health care providers have asked
me over the years.
Dr. Lehman
is the author of many textbook chapters and articles on the care of children
and young adults with SLE. He practices
in New York City. Click here for more
information about Dr. Lehman or the Hospital for Special Surgery.
The Arthritis Foundation also works with
children with lupus.
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childhood rheumatic diseases
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Chief, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology
The Hospital for Special Surgery
535 E 70 St,
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