Re: Margaret McCartney: Early cancer diagnosis: how low should we go?
Margaret McCartney
GP, Glasgow, and writer of distinction
Dear Margaret
I always look out for your “Comment” in the BMJ. Your latest one, on cancer screening, is another excellent reminder of how the NHS is being destroyed by recommendations that increase the public's demands of it from unsubstantiated propaganda and squanders money at the same time. I was horrified to see a leaflet on the waiting room wall of our GP’s Surgery that showed a man with a cough and a notice that said: “If you have had a cough for three weeks, pop in and see your GP. It could be cancer”. No doubt you are all too familiar with the leaflet.
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Re: Margaret McCartney: Early cancer diagnosis: how low should we go?
Margaret McCartney
GP, Glasgow, and writer of distinction
Dear Margaret
I always look out for your “Comment” in the BMJ. Your latest one, on cancer screening, is another excellent reminder of how the NHS is being destroyed by recommendations that increase the public's demands of it from unsubstantiated propaganda and squanders money at the same time. I was horrified to see a leaflet on the waiting room wall of our GP’s Surgery that showed a man with a cough and a notice that said: “If you have had a cough for three weeks, pop in and see your GP. It could be cancer”. No doubt you are all too familiar with the leaflet.
Please continue your efforts.
Kind regards
Roger
(Roger H Armour
Retired consultant surgeon)
Competing interests: No competing interests