RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Fighting the odds in the UK
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 1547
OP 1548
VO 154
IS 10
A1 C. Richmond
YR 1996
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/154/10/1547.abstract
AB Caroline Richmond reports on miscellaneous winners and losers from the health care scene in the United Kingdom. The winners include a young patient who is holding her own against formidable medical odds after receiving heroic treatment for leukemia, and the country's osteopaths, who have won the right to compile a statutory register. The losers are the venerable St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which appears to have lost its battle to stay open, and a 32-year-old man who almost made it to medical school by posing as a teenager.