- When the shutters come down for the final time at your local pharmacy and all the prescription drugs we've come to rely on are labelled 'Not Fit For Purpose', what will you do?
Are we facing the end of modern medicine?
At the risk of provoking howls of derision from regular readers, bear with me for one minute...
Recently, I told you about a leading doctor who risked professional suicide by suggesting that a 10 pence Vitamin B tablet is more effective for treating dementia than the blockbuster drug Aricept...
We also heard the apocalyptic pronouncement from the World Health Organisation that antibiotics have been so over-used that they're now almost completely useless against 'super strains' of bacterial infection.
At the risk of provoking howls of derision from regular readers, bear with me for one minute...
Recently, I told you about a leading doctor who risked professional suicide by suggesting that a 10 pence Vitamin B tablet is more effective for treating dementia than the blockbuster drug Aricept...
We also heard the apocalyptic pronouncement from the World Health Organisation that antibiotics have been so over-used that they're now almost completely useless against 'super strains' of bacterial infection.
