As a named petitioner in the Scottish Parliament public petition cited by Des Spence in this article,1 I would like to thank Dr Spence wholeheartedly for his support on TV and radio, and now in this journal. I would also like to thank the BJGP for publication. We too have been ‘banging on about this’, (the harm caused by prescription drugs) on behalf of patients, for years. We have become acutely aware of how ‘untouchable’ the topic is for doctors, and aware of their extreme discomfort when patients try to flag up the issues. GPs, especially, seem to have been placed in an extraordinarily difficult situation altogether by a system that has failed to provide them with the guidance and support that they surely deserve. Perhaps, between us all, we can truly recognise what has gone wrong and start to really communicate collaboratively about what needs to happen now.
- © British Journal of General Practice 2017
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