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Article: SOAP WATCH; Jaci Stephen with the ultimate insight into the week's soaps.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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Byline: Jaci Stephen
Is any doctor capable of prescribing anything on which their patients won't become hooked? Where are the dozens queuing up in the surgeries to receive their swine-flu injections? Where are the kids with runny noses, earache and acne? Where are the hormonal women, the sex addicts (oh, yes, please, please tell me where they hang out), the asthma sufferers?
Wherever they are, they are keeping their complaints very quiet, because the only time we ever hear of anyone being treated for anything these days is when their medication causes them a problem.
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