In a message dated 05/08/98 18:11:11 GMT, Adrian writes:
<< This seems a little hard >>
Viagra obviously starting to work then ;-)
<<on someone who only has low priority
conditions, but finds that due to an excess of high priority
conditions they are not allowed any NHS treatment.>>
How else will you make sure that those high priority cases I mentioned get
treated?
Should we ask the patients and how should the sample of patients we ask be
made up? Ask 500 impotent men and all will reply that Viagra should be freely
available. Ask 500 men with OA hip and all will reply that hip replacement
should be freely and quickly available. Ask 500 people with neither condition
which treatment should be available to sufferers from these problems and you
may get a fairer answer but sufferers of either problem might rightly then
say that non-sufferers can't possibly know what it's like to be a sufferer
from impotence or OA of the hip.
Can anyone think of a better or fairer way round the rationing problem? How
were priorities set in the Portland experiment?
Best wishes
Jeremy Sager
GP
Leeds
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