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Too often, one goes to some cabinet, pulls open the door and loads of medicines fall out. The person does not know how the medicines are to be taken, why they are there or what to do with them.
For example, most people who study medicine degrees become doctors. Of course, they still move off into a wide variety of different directions to become general practitioners or consultants in different areas of specialism.
If you go to Halifax and the maritime provinces in Canada, you see them flocking in their thousands to Prince Edward Island because of their love for L M Montgomery's stories, such as "Anne of Green Gables".
It goes down to the fact that I allocated £1 million for structural improvements to improve Campbeltown harbour’s ability to cope with the new larger wind turbines that will be going to the Skykon factory, and the allocation of £3.8 million to move the centre for regenerative medicine in Edinburgh to a further stage of development.
After all, they prescribe expensive medicines from time to time. We have exercise programmes in Glasgow and throughout Scotland, but I think patients still have to pay a certain amount to attend them—they are not free.
Health promotion and preventive medicine have, probably for the past 500 years, been built on the idea that if we inform populations about what they should do, they will do it.
Those specialists, who have great expertise in a particular field—it could be medicine, language, Chinese translation or whatever—can make the connections that will bring international conventions back into our cities.
As the motion highlights, our contribution to diabetes research and medicine goes well beyond our size as a nation, as does our contribution to the charity itself.
Scotland has always been at her best in leading the world in economics, science, medicine and philosophy when she has been at the cutting edge of the international community.
Those have included sponsoring an exhibition on Israel’s phenomenal contribution to the modern world and hosting speakers to talk about the reality of day-to-day life in Israel—looking at equal access to medicine, for example. Unfortunately, the reaction to those events has often been expressed through the very behaviour that I am so keen to counter: depres...