Dr Lewis says that I am working covertly for the drug companies who make statins and antihypertensives and am failing to declare it in the compulsory declaration of interests. This is a serious accusation that I deny and ask him to retract.
By implication all the eminent authors and bodies behind JBS3 (1) are also acting solely out of desire for personal profit. I simply do not believe that so many doctors are so unethical. The reasoning behind JBS3 is not only contained in the document itself, but was eloquently expressed in a recent BMJ article (2).
He goes on to say that I am robbing the NHS and denying cancer patients their medication. All this because I choose to follow expert advice and take generic medication that costs about £2.50 per month. This leftist view of the importance of rationing is the sort of view that gets the NHS a bad name in other developed countries.
I will continue to use JBS3 with myself and my patients.
References
1 Heart 2014;100:ii1-ii67 doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2014-305693
Review
Joint British Societies’ consensus recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (JBS3)
JBS3 Board
2. Taking a longer term view of cardiovacular risk: the causal exposure paradigm. Allan Snidermann et al. BMJ 2014;348:g3047
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Rapid Response:
Dr Lewis says that I am working covertly for the drug companies who make statins and antihypertensives and am failing to declare it in the compulsory declaration of interests. This is a serious accusation that I deny and ask him to retract.
By implication all the eminent authors and bodies behind JBS3 (1) are also acting solely out of desire for personal profit. I simply do not believe that so many doctors are so unethical. The reasoning behind JBS3 is not only contained in the document itself, but was eloquently expressed in a recent BMJ article (2).
He goes on to say that I am robbing the NHS and denying cancer patients their medication. All this because I choose to follow expert advice and take generic medication that costs about £2.50 per month. This leftist view of the importance of rationing is the sort of view that gets the NHS a bad name in other developed countries.
I will continue to use JBS3 with myself and my patients.
References
1 Heart 2014;100:ii1-ii67 doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2014-305693
Review
Joint British Societies’ consensus recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (JBS3)
JBS3 Board
2. Taking a longer term view of cardiovacular risk: the causal exposure paradigm. Allan Snidermann et al. BMJ 2014;348:g3047
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Competing interests: No competing interests