In message <[log in to unmask]> you wrote:

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> Anyone read Pulse this week? P 2-3? Comments?

Pulse, eh? What a high quality paper that is. Easily the best of the
trade weeklies. An excellent read, cover to cover, even the adverts.
And that bloke on the back page - what a hoot!

(to the editor: can I *please* have that pay rise now? I'm an inner
city GP and the remuneration is very poor but I love the job and
only want the very best for my patients so making money by writing
for the press is my only real source of income and the only method I
have of keeping my wife supplied with the caviar and truffles she so
enjoys)

Actually, I hadn't looked at this week's copy until you posted. How
bizarre. Gross Graham Ross wants to bring the "problem" of
diagnosing depression "back into the public domain".

Judging from his recent posts to this list, Gross has a certain way
with words. He's obviously something of an entrepeneur. He seems to
have the knack of being able to justify the most reprehensible of
actions. And rather like some of those people you come across on
usenet, I would be surprised if anything any of us could say would
make him change his mind.

Actually, the whole thing rather reminds me of those "MAKE MONEY
FAST" spams that crop up all over the show. "Get in on the ground
floor". "I made 10,000 UKP in just two weeks!!!"

IMHO, there are some solicitors (and I certainly wouldn't want to
risk accusations of libel by naming any) whose only interest is in
making money. They can dress up their schemes in an attempt to
convince one and all that their motives are altruistic (and making
money is merely a happy coincidence) but the only people who will
fall for this ruse are the future plaintiffs who are keen to mask
the guilt they feel about sueing someone who they know was only
doing his or her best to help them.

Dear Gross: I respect your right to subscribe to GP-UK and your
right to post to the list. However, if I had the choice I would
prevent you from posting. If I wanted to read specious
justifications for sueing doctors I would join a legal mailing list.

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--
Iain Hotchkies MBChB                 ambition: polymath
                                    currently: jack of all trades
www.hotch.demon.co.uk               corollary: master of none

[*] only joking - hot needles beneath fingernails only.


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