medicine is now more scientific.The recent recommendations from the Association acknowledge that there is no conclusive evidence of a reduction in mortality or morbidity and are based therefore more on commonsense than science.The Colleges, Faculties and Associations have failed to arrange nationally based schemes to examine practice and determine what is 'the best' without the need for the qualifying 'in my opinion'.The CEPOD report and its
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