Well wasn't Warren C Stuarts message a breath of fresh air
in this debate! I may be misquoting but I think it was
George Bernard Shaw who wrote " The professions are a
conspiracy against the laity".
Perhaps science and scientists would have a better standing
in the public eye if information was willingly
given and gathered from bodies such as ours or reputable
medical/science textbooks rather than a garbled, biased
version distilled through journalists.
We are not "all knowing" creatures - if a patient finds out
something we did not know surely we can learn from them
just as well as from any other professional source! Hard
to believe I know but many patients are intelligent even if
they are not medically or scientifically qualified!
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pamela riches
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St. George's Hospital Medical School
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