4 JUNE 1994, Page 28

Good prescription

Sir: One's first reaction after reading Dr Theodore Dalrymple's article (Doctors, patients and other nuisances', 21 May) is impotent fury. Then however, one must wonder what are Dr Dalrymple and his col- leagues in the medical profession doing about it. If his description of the National Health Service is even partly true (and I have no reason to doubt it), then Mrs Vir- ginia Bottomley and the myriad bureau- crats for whom she has manufactured employment should be told to go and busy themselves elsewhere; and Mr Major must find someone else to take a fresh look at the NHS.

Gilbert Longden

89 Cornwall Gardens, London SW7