title: Fighting the odds in the UK.
abstract: Caroline Richmond reports on miscellaneous winners and losers from the health care scene in the United Kingdom. The winners include a young patient who is holding her own against formidable medical odds after receiving heroic treatment for leukemia, and the country's osteopaths, who have won the right to compile a statutory register. The losers are the venerable St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which appears to have lost its battle to stay open, and a 32-year-old man who almost made it to medical school by posing as a teenager.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Richmond
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006271:Health Facility Closure; D006801:Humans; D008007:Licensure, Medical; D008297:Male; D010021:Osteopathic Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom