- Alex Burns, general practitioner
- Three Spires Medical Practice, Truro, UK
- alex.burns{at}nhs.net
Mathew’s eloquent piece and its rapid responses prompt me to point out that there are trade-offs in risk and medicalisation.1 It helps to make them explicit.
Every health awareness campaign, or lower referral threshold, or “Speak to your GP” comes at a price that is not only measured in money …