Editor - Linda Patterson's editorial claims that 'More community working should lead to better management of chronic disease. This is the future' (Clin Med February 2010 pp 4-5). I hope not. I think it is regrettable that the 'care closer to home' mantra has somehow hypnotised us into presupposing the existence of some physical (or maybe metaphysical) barrier between hospital and community, with prejudices reinforced by inflammatory language. Policy it may be, but if it is bad policy we should have nothing to do with it.
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