Bad Medicine: The medical untouchables

I was on the TV and radio news recently. I have no media training nor a PA to help me. I don’t enjoy it; I always mumble and speak too quickly. My kids don’t help by saying, ‘Who’s that hideous middle-aged man on the telly?’ But I don’t care, because the topic is so important. A petition was recently sent to the Scottish Parliament to highlight the harm caused by prescription drugs1 — a topic I have been droning on about for decades. With a...