Weetman

[Guest guest]

I've just sent him an e-mail as follows

Sir,

After reading your article on " Whose health is it anyway " , I would

like to point out that it is obviously not yours, how dare you make

such a sweeping judgement when you have no clinical knowledge of the

patients you are condemning to years of sickness.

NHS guidelines (check with Ann Keen, Parliamentary Under Secretary

for Health) state that medical history, symptoms and a thorough

clinical examination as well as blood tests are required for

diagnosis. May I suggest that you teach your medical students this

FACT, rather than the rubbish about all people who `think' they are

Hypothyroid being mentally ill?

I am appalled that you are teaching at all, does not the Hippocratic

Oath require you to actually LISTEN to what your patient says?

Glynis ,

A still very ill Hypothyroid patient who, thanks to you and your ilk,

can't get any proper treatment.