Dubious procedure
Sir: In contrasting her Chinese medical treatment favourably with that received back in England, I suspect that Tessa Keswick (‘If you need a doctor, go to China’, 15 March) is not comparing like with like. In China she paid for expensive — certainly by Chinese standards — private consultations, whereas in England she complains that she was ‘still waiting for an appointment to see a specialist’. This is presumably because she is waiting for free NHS treatment — based on my own experience, I doubt that she would wait more than 48 hours if she went the private route, as she did in China.
I also suspect that a month of analgesic or anti-inflammatory medication would have been at least as effective as the month of painful and dubious-sounding procedures she subjected herself to in China.
Mike Venis
Faversham, Kent
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