The BMJ: Can We Pay Patients To Take Their Medications

August 2, 2007

Joanne Shaw, vice chairman of NHS Direct, takes up the consenting opinion. While Tom Burns, chair of social psychiatry, defends this [cough] appalling [cough] practice.

I wonder what the 12,000 or so suffers of severe rheumatoid arthritis think of this practice as the NHS denies them their medication?



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