Panorama asks whether some of the medical profession have become addicted to prescribing anti-psychotics and whether many of these patients could be better cared for without such reliance on these powerful drugs?
The exemption from the working time directive was negotiated by the Conservative government in 1993 and is used tosome extent by other member states, for members of the medical profession for example, although the UK is the only country which has opted out of it altogether.
Mr. Greenberg wonders whether he is helping to undermine a profession "that offers the last and only hope for some patients" with psychosis and other severe disorders.
But the issue of involving the private sector to introduce competition for services was vehemently opposed by some critics within the medical profession when the changes were drawn up.
Beneath that nugget of information, the Bloomberg piece included some useful information on a profession that is growing and will continue to grow at least for the next half dozen years, according to industry groups: mining engineer.