Doctors wield too much power: medical tyranny exists and patients’ best
interests are not necessarily uppermost in doctors’ minds. The reputation of the
medical profession as benevolent experts who are so immaculately motivated that
they are above criticism is wrong, argues Fabian Tassano in The Power of Life or
Death (Duckworth, £12.95, ISBN 0 7156 2697 3). This is a fiercely argued
polemic asserting that individual liberties have gone out of the surgery
door.
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