The pigeons are really coming home to roost now, aren't they? And the
trouble is, we let them out. We had no option, of course as we were told
that if we did not check up on ourselves then we would find it being done
for us.
Headline, Daily Mail 6/9/99 - HEART BYPASS DEATHS INQUIRY. Reading between
the lines this appears to have been someone's audit project that showed,
in an (unspecified) period that different cardiac surgeons had different
death rates. Well surprise, surprise. Only Joe Public don't see it like
that. They are fed cover-ups and incompetence. I do not know any of the
surgeons in question, but here is audit data that we were promised would
not be used against us on the front pages of a tabloid. Being used for
political ends to bash doctors. What is this Government's agenda? Is it
trying to frighten everyone away to keep the figures down? Why is there no
debate in the BMJ or as far as I can see anywhere else on this?
Still, at least there is hope on page 40. "My eczema was cured by an
African tree..."
I kid you not.
Rowley Cottingham
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No, my powers can only be used for good.
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