84 Clinical Medicine Vol 3 No 1 January/February 2003 the only effective sanction would be
to switch off the radio and television and not to read newspapers. Like the flavours in some …

SIR,-I entirely agree with the points raised by Mr. RS Murley (30 April, p. 1116) in his
admirable letter. Many of the improvements urgently required to make our hospitals efficient …

Countries, writes:'Although epidemiology [the primary object of the book] is mentioned in
most chapters, aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical details, diagnosis and treatment creep into …

'Primum non nocere and'no patient should be the worse for seeing the doctor'are key
messages in medi-cal education. Yet adverse effects to medical interven-tions have been …

Dr AW BEATSON (Worthing, Sussex) writes: If the Bill proposing this measure was turned
down for a second reading by 53 members of the Upper House against 51 (and the voters …

Discussion Dr SMITH: We can look at prevention from two points of view. Firstly, are we
making the best use of existing knowledge? Health educators have tendedto rely on …

SIR,-There is another concern to add to those so cogently argued in your topical leading
article (19 February, p 579). This is the prescription of drugs for healthy people who have …

It is here that the State should have intervened with a metaphorical big stick. The Housing
Acts gave the State the power to provide the stimulus of compulsion. A little far-sightedness …

THE authors welcome the opportunity of appearing jointly, for they have had the JL unusual
Anglo-American opportunity of serving in the same department of health. To their mutual …

First Do No Harm is a series of articles with internet footnotes about general practice
focusing on ways in which we can replace iatrogenesis, making people ill, with …