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Showing posts with label social prescribing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social prescribing. Show all posts

Saturday, 6 January 2018

Social prescribing: introducing quackery through the backdoor?

Yesterday, I heard my ‘good friend’ Dr Michael Dixon (see here, here and here, for example) talk on the BBC about the “new thing” in healthcare: social prescribing. He explained, for instance, that social prescribing could mean treating a diabetic not with medication but with auto-hypnosis and other alternative therapies. At that moment, I wasn’t […]

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