[Margaret Pilkington]

the pharma industries are vast and generate huge profits by making Doctors think that there is a prescription for every ill.

And don't jump on me and tell me that you would not be alive but for modern meds, as I am quite well aware that some people do need medications to keep them going...diabetics for instance....they would die without insulin...however, I do feel that some people do not feel that they have had a good consultation with their GP unless they come away with a prescription for something.

I avoid the doctor like the plague........I do not want my elderly(!) status to be medicalised....and I am definitely against the 'one size fit all' type of medicating that is forever being advocated for the over 55's.

In fact, there are many medicines out there, being used daily, that have only ever been tested on men.....current thoughts are, that these may not be as suitable for women as was once thought.