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Platitudes to be available on NHS

Doctors are being asked to cut down the number of drugs they prescribe to their patients, and offer a range of platitudes instead. These will now be available on the NHS

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Posted: Feb 5th, 2013
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NHS to rely more on ‘reservist’ doctors and surgeons

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that the NHS will welcome an additional 20,000 voluntary reservists who will step in to replace those trained professionals being made redundant in NHS ‘restructuring’.

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Posted: Jan 25th, 2013
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Waiting times to assault NHS staff ‘have tripled’, finds study

free-for-all at the point of needThe latest report on the performance of the NHS has found a familiar but depressing picture of Accident and Emergency rooms full of people who have waited up to three hours to launch an unprovoked physical attack on a medical orderly or nurse.

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Posted: Dec 2nd, 2012
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Unborn babies able to distinguish good wine from the cheap stuff, finds study

in vitro veritasDoctors now believe that a mother’s occasional glass of wine can help her unborn child develop a sophisticated wine-tasting palate which will stand them in good stead in later life.

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Posted: Oct 8th, 2012
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Doctors unite to fight obesity with ridicule

no coach parties allowed in waiting roomOrganisations representing nearly every doctor in the UK have come together to promote ridicule as the most effective measure in combating obesity.

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Posted: Apr 17th, 2012
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