Dr Mark Perry is a Consultant Rheumatologist, Fellow Royal College of Physicians, Senior Tutor Peninsula Medical School (PMS), and expert on Patient Initiated Follow Up. Formerly Clinical Lead National Outpatient Transformation Program NHSEI, and Evidence Based Practice Lead PMS.
My father died when I was twelve although his illness had started when I was two. My childhood memory is that he first knew something was wrong when his beautiful handwriting deteriorated and he became unsteady. It turned out that he had