Another slap in the face for the English
Why did Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledge yesterday, at the Labour Party Conference, to scrap prescription charges for people in England with cancer from next year? He said that anyone with a long-term illness would also be eligible, but the devil, as they say, will be in the detail. What’s the betting that ‘long-term illness’ will be strictly defined according to a woefully short and very controversial list of diseases and disorders drawn up in Whitehall by rich blokes in suits who have only ever suffered an occasional cold, or, if they do get seriously ill, are most likely to head straight to a private hospital for treatment?
tags: Gordon Brown, government, Labour, NHS, policy, politics, prescriptionsPhysician heal thyself (and stop talking down to patients)
My doctor is an offensively rude and grouchy know-it-all, but I’m used to not liking doctors. It’s one reason why I’ve always been inclined to give credence to alternative therapies. They may or may not work, but at least the practitioners treat you with respect.
tags: alternative medicine, alternative therapies, disability, doctors, herbalism, illness, Linear Morphea Scleroderma, Mal de Debarquement Syndrome, MdDS, NHS, patients, private medical care
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