In their ignorance, governments and insurers have made foolish errors when seeking to limit the cost of healthcare, and should look more carefully at its real nature.

Medicine and doctors are seriously misrepresented by certain media people and this may be connected with the actions of governments and healthcare insurers to restrict and control what doctors do, all over the world, not only in Britain, not because of failures of the National Health Service which actually compares well with any other system. There may be much wrong, but certainly not the things doctors and other professionals are accused of. So this book looks again at the history and the present state of affairs. A little learning is a dangerous thing, a little more stands a chance of being better.