‘Societies get the doctors they deserve’ writes Raymond Tallis in Hippocratic Oaths, his important new analysis of ‘medicine and its discontents’.1 As an experienced clinician — he is professor of geriatric medicine at Manchester — Tallis is intimately familiar with the realities of contemporary medical practice in Britain. As the author of a number of critiques of fashionable irrational philosophies (such as postmodernism), he is well qualified to appraise the bleak ideology currently permeating the National Health Service.2 He offers an acerbic assessment of the current crisis of the medical profession.
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