On May 27th 2007, the Sunday Times published a touching essay by Andrew Lawson, a a consultant in pain medicine at Royal Berkshire hospital.
He has been diagnosed as suffering from mesothelioma, a particularly virulent form of cancer which is associated with asbestos. In the article he describes how he is handling the transition from being a provider of NHS services to becoming a recipient.
It becomes even more poignant when one considers that he was probably exposed to asbestos in the dingy underground corridors that run through many of our hospitals, and that the government body NICE, (in his words the National Institute for Curtailing Expenditure), deems the drugs that could help him too expensive to prescribe. - Still more galling when those drugs are available to patients in the Scottish sector of the United Kingdom.
In spite of the irony of the situation, he manages to convey a sense of hope to other sufferers.
To read the full article click on the link below.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1844501.ece
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