title: Cautionary tale.
abstract: I read with interest Saraswathi Vaidyanathan's article Rheumatoid arthritis: educating the patient in India' (Nursing Standard December 13-19), when she illustrated some very sound principles in establishing health education and teaching programme for sufferers of this disease.
authors.affiliation: Rheumatology Nursing Forum.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Maycock