ABSTRACT
Philip Sattin gave up medicine to concentrate on making medical films. At that time Britain had a shortage of doctors but we managed to persuade Godfrey Ripley to return to the United Kingdom from Jamaica by giving him a disproportionately large share of the practice income. The profession's leaders reacted strongly to the reports and Dr. Stevenson, the Secretary of the British Medical Association (BMA), wrote to every doctor telling them that both the BMA's Council and the General Medical Services Committee would be discussing what action to take. As a result of decisions whose origins were lost in time the Representative Body of the BMA and the Conference of Local Medical Committees each debated the same issues separately, sometimes coming to conflicting decisions. In Hertfordshire there was a huge problem of amphetamine abuse. In the late 1960s drug abuse, and particularly the misuse of stimulants in the amphetamine group, became an increasingly serious problem.
