Only minority of doctors supported idea of state funded health service in 1945

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Thurstan Brewin, Consultant in clinical oncology (retired).

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EDITOR—Macpherson has given a valuable account of how the NHS was finally launched 50 years ago after nearly three years of bitter negotiations, but at one point he tries too hard to be tactful about the attitude of most doctors at the time.1 It would be less than honest not to challenge his statement that …