Say Something Back by Denise Riley

Author:Denise Riley [Riley, Denise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447270386
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

iv The consultant summarises our national health

‘Liver, until so recently the Cinderella of medicine!

Just the girl in the clinical ashes, unrescued as yet

Assailed by her bad suitors – weak policies and folly.

‘Alcohol-led liver failure rising, bile duct cancer rates

Mounting, more cirrhosis from viral illness, Hep B, C.

More drinking, younger drinking, increased steatosis,

‘Yet funders don’t cough up for self-induced sickness.

Specialists get scarcer, beds vanish, bureaucracy swells

As need begs for new transplants, more artificial livers.

‘One gets despondent. Lifestyle’s the problem,’ adds

This eminent hepatologist, despondent at ‘patching up

Self-harming patients, worsened by government policy’.

His time is short. This patient nods and leaves. So

It’s our national fantasy, not just my private idiocy,

That what our daily intake is by mouth has nil effect?

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