Doctors will always help those in need of it

Mr Cosgrove raises questions which merit a response in his letter (Aprl 9).

The main question he poses is why stress and anxiety should fall into the remit of “medicalia” as opposed to other “therapeutic/counselling” options.

He suggests that the answer may relate to the “vested interests, professional-patch empowerments”, a desire to protect the “status-quo” as well a reluctance to think outside the “bio-scientific box”.