Professor Karol Sikora, a senior cancer doctor, has said that expensive drugs should not be given to the elderly (I wonder if he includes himself at age 65 in that category). "They only prolong lives for three to six months" he stated, "we are kidding ourselves if we think they make a difference".
Is this what our NHS has come to? Maybe it should be replaced with something more caring. How many drug doses I wonder could be bought for the £80 billion cost of the useless HS2 high-speed rail line? Or the billions squandered in aid to foreign dictators and countries that do not need our money?
Those of us who have worked all our lives, 50 years or more, have paid our taxes and national insurance contributions, should feel infuriated by Sikora's remarks.
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