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Bare below the elbows ?

Chris J Smart   (8 July 2008)

Bare below the elbows ? 8 July 2008
Chris J Smart, Spr General Surgery Blackburn Hospital BB2 3HH, North West Deanery Send response to journal: Re: Bare below the elbows ?	Dear Sir, Great to see our premier the Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP and NHS patriarch, Professor Lord Darzi seeing patients at a hospital in Surrey. How strange to see that they have ignored the advice1 of their colleague, Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, and would not dream of seeing a member of the public on a hospital ward without a jacket and tie on. 1 Statement to the House of Commons by the Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health, 15 October 2007 http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/News/Speeches/DH_079871 Competing interests: None declared