When you think of the NHS now, you don't think of the billions of pounds being flushed through the system, the well-meaning doctors or nurses with a vocation.

In the last century, patients were sometimes not told they had cancer, as well-meaning doctors tried to protect them from the anguish of knowing that they would die.

He also had a fear of hospitals and some well-meaning doctor might order him to be removed to one.

When she cried on learning that she had cancer, a well-meaning doctor had quickly handed her a prescription for Valium.

A well-meaning doctor had almost killed me with ice baths for what they thought was a dangerously high fever.

To the Editor: Why do well-trained and well-meaning doctors suggest angioplasty and stents (front page, March 21)?

While most physicians remained committed to the general professional standard-do the best that you can for each individual patient- many well-meaning doctors ultimately were not delivering their patients the best care available.

To the Editor: In the late 1970's, a well-meaning doctor published a paper indicating that mammograms would cause more harm than good.

Modern science has presented the medical community with a bewildering array of medications that are being prescribed worldwide by well-meaning doctors.

When infants have birth defects, well-meaning doctors often quiz parents, especially mothers, about their habits, medications, family history and so on.