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Daniel Allen Freelance journalist

Happiness is a warm home as well as a new hip, says Daniel Allen

What is the point of medical advance? Actually, let me qualify that before you assume I believe only in trepanning and leeches. What is the point of medical advance in isolation from social, moral and political advance? I only ask because it feels as if medical science is leaping ahead like the school swot, while us dunces struggle to keep up.

Nursing Standard. 19, 7, 22-22. doi: 10.7748/ns.19.7.22.s32

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