6 FEBRUARY 1948, page 15

The Doctor-patient Relationship

SIR,—In arguments for and against the projected National Health Service there seems still to be an inadequate appreciation by the general public of the unique nature of the......

Strt,—in Emphasising Her Plea For State Medicine, Dr....

is somewhat unhappy in the choice of quotation, viz.: " Whate'er is best administered is best." It implies a coldness, a sense of fatalism ; conjures up the dangers of......

Slow Progress In The Caribbean Sut,—there Is A Most...

middle in your issue of January 30th, by W. J. Brown, M.P., entitled Jamaica Boss but also dealing generally with West Indian and Caribbean affairs. The acute and incisive......

Letters To

THE EDITOR WHEN BRITAIN FAILED StR,—In your issue of January 23rd Sir Geoffrey Whiskard remarks upon Mr. Gunther Stein's article Happy America in your issue of January 16th: "......

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SPECTATOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES :— 52 weeks. 26 weeks d. £ s. d. Great Britain and Overseas by ordinary mail I 10 0 15 0 Air Mail to Members of the Forces in any part of the World......

Sir,—over The Past Eighteen Months The Spectator Has...

on the National Health Act. Always The Spectator has spoken in a lordly manner to the doctors. The doctors are to be good boys and are to sign on the dotted line, drawn up by......