These elderly people wouldn’t be on all those pills because of stupid health stories in the mail. Would they? “Dear I’ve been drinking coffee for years now, the mail says I’m going to get cancer, should go get some pills”
Doctors handing out useless medication to the elderly is a longstanding problem and one that does need highlighting. The reason they seem to do it is that old people like to be “re-assured” when they’re ill and so doctors sometimes give them vitamins and tell them they’re something else in the hope of, basically, making them go away and stop worrying. This is probably so common, though, that it’s causing a genuine drain on resources.
These elderly people wouldn’t be on all those pills because of stupid health stories in the mail. Would they? “Dear I’ve been drinking coffee for years now, the mail says I’m going to get cancer, should go get some pills”
Would that be the kind of creepy voyerism that involves putting a dying woman’s picture on the front page of your paper?
Is this perhaps another sign of how out of touch the BBC are?
If one OAP died through not getting their medication from a GP the Mail would go fucking mental. It’s no wonder they give out loads of pills.
Define irony.
Tabloid newspaper has voyeuristic article on a terminally ill woman written by a guy saying that voyeurism is bad.
Too right. Do they consider themselves above such voyeurism? Hypocrisy at its worst.
Plus “…claims expert”. Again, the Mail’s headline revolves around one person’s opinion.
Win a “family” holiday to *Florida*, LOL!!!
Doctors handing out useless medication to the elderly is a longstanding problem and one that does need highlighting. The reason they seem to do it is that old people like to be “re-assured” when they’re ill and so doctors sometimes give them vitamins and tell them they’re something else in the hope of, basically, making them go away and stop worrying. This is probably so common, though, that it’s causing a genuine drain on resources.
At £40,000 she was ripped off, because it doesn’t look any different.
As for the rest it’s piss and chip paper.
DM – “This needless voyeurism (that we’re also participating in) is disgraceful because our rivals got the exclusive”
Some people will not leave a Surgery unless they have something to make them feel better. Might as well give them cake then!
Cake is a made-up drug.
That makes it even worse
QUE?
Hasn’t the DM been one of the papers following Jade constantly? You wouldn’t get this with those evil Guardianistas …
Creepy voyeurism and needless pills – that’s 2 examples of the Daily Mail’s special kind of doublethink, on the same page.
Doctors do not ‘hand out’ pills – they prescribe them. When was the last time a doctor ever ‘handed out’ pills to you? Typical emotive claptrap.
“At £40,000 she was ripped off, because it doesn’t look any different.”
-That reminds me, who was it that said of Elton John “All that money on his hair and he still looks like a dinnerlady” ? Classic!
The Daily Mail accusing others of creepy voyeurism?
Words (Daily) fail me.
@ George
I was mocking the Mail using an old photograph and the market that suggests that such price could ever be charged for a haircut.
creepy voyeurism .. you couldn’t make it up!?!
Some poor kiddy coughed up a lung while high on cake…..its a fucking disgrace!