TY - JOUR T1 - Bad Medicine: Defensiveness JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 348 LP - 348 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X691817 VL - 67 IS - 661 AU - Fiona French Y1 - 2017/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/661/348.2.abstract N2 - Dr Spence makes some very pertinent points about our current NHS.1 There are long waits for GP appointments, for referrals, for scans, for test results. He suggests less prescribing, fewer referrals, fewer investigations. As a patient who has sustained brain damage due to benzodiazepine withdrawal after 40 years’ consumption, I am deeply dismayed by my recent experience of the … ER -