<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jewell, David</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Books: &lt;em&gt;The State Of Medicine&lt;/em&gt;</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">British Journal of General Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017-01-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">33-33</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3399/bjgp17X688717</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">67</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">654</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The State of Medicine Margaret McCartney Pinter &amp; Martin, 2016, PB, 272pp, £11.99, 978-1780664002Nobody who follows the news in Britain, and most especially anyone who has had to use the system recently, can be unaware of the current problems facing the NHS. Those of us who have worked in the NHS over the last 15–20 years are all too familiar with the long history of reorganisations, wasteful initiatives, ill thought out policies, and simple errors. And here they all are, set out in densely referenced detail.Margaret McCartney’s latest book is a truly impressive achievement in the scope and unblinking gaze it fixes on our travails. Even more impressive, it was an easy read, with little that I didn’t know already, and almost nothing to disagree with. …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>