Treatment of gall stones

doi:10.1136/bmj.311.7012.1091d

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R P Jazrawi,
A G Lim

Registrar in gastroenterology Lecturer in biochemical medicine Division of Biochemical Medicine, St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE

Non-surgical treatments should not be dismissed

EDITOR,--In their review on the treatment of gall stones N Tait and J M Little are unnecessarily dismissive of treatments other than surgery.1 They are perhaps being deliberately provocative when suggesting that such treatments are for patients who are dissatisfied with the outcome of alternative (previously defined by the authors as “folk,” herbal, or naturopathic) treatments.

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