BBC Television - The Doctor who gave up drugs

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BBC Television – The Doctor who gave up drugs.

Part 1 of this programme proved interestion. It did clearly demonstrate, that time is a basic requirement, in getting to the route of healthproblems. To be fair,whenaperson visits a GP for adviceon a problem, this is a commodity the Gp does not have.

The doctor who presented the programme, appeared to have some success, in enabling people to do without prescribed medication, this of course,may not apply to many others as he explained.

There was not a mention, however, of the range of complimentary therapy that is available. Maybe this will be covered in part 2.

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The follow up programme proved with a different approach to health, such as taking more exercise, would improve the reliance on prescribed drugs.

The drug companies hard sell approach,should also be questioned. Free perks,ie free dinner for doctors to push products,,should notbe permitted by the National Health Service. This would fall in line with other government departments, where such practice is not allowed,dueto fraud implications.

If nothing else, these programmes have started the debate.

There appears to be a lot of people,making alotof money,in drugs thatmay not be necessary.