HERE we have folk dying on trolleys in hospital corridors, intensive care beds not to be had at all and refrigeration lorries used as overflow mortuaries and our family doctors are trampling all over Frank Dobson's restrictions on the prescribing of Viagra - possibly costing the desperate NHS £125 million a year that it cannot afford - and all so some past-it geezers can make a comeback in bed.

Well, nice for them. But let's not have any moaning at inquests about Viagra users blowing a gasket in their tickers and then not being able to get a bed in intensive care as a result of this arrogant and extravagant I'm-in-charge irresponsibility by GPs.

It's sick that so much public money is being wasted on people who are not sick. And Mr Dobson should relieve the doctors of their inability to prescribe £6-a-pill Viagra sensibly by making it altogether unavailable on the NHS.

If people want it, they should pay for it themselves. Don't tell me they can't afford it - most would not think twice about spending £6 for pleasure down at the pub or for a couple of take-away curries for their own and their partners' enjoyment, so what's the problem over them forking out themselves to spice up a different part of their anatomy?

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