[Mr Ramsbotham]

What we CANNOT do is stick our heads in the sand and lock ourselves in our homes for months, potentially years in response to outright hysteria.

That's very true, and it has nothing to do with the practice of medicine.

[wastoute]

IMHO the social changes this disease will precipitate will be under pressure from every source. Doctors will be only one. Something tells me today’s doctors won’t be able to defend the profession.