Perhaps we need ‘book doctors’ now!


There are some conditions which traditional drugs can’t cure and which may require a literary prescription.

I READ in the Wall Street Journal recently about “book doctors” – those who prescribe books, not medicines, as over-the-counter remedies for an array of “conditions”. They scribble titles of books instead of sending their clients to the phar­macy.

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Opinion , Johan Jaaffar , columnist

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