Checking my use-by date

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Checking my use-by date

Jim Vause 2015

Jim Vause

inhaler [ photo: Magnus Manske]
Placebo inhalers are great at finding out which patients know the difference between suck and blow

Throwing out expired inhalers is required but GP Jim Vause wonders how it measures up with the proliferation of green policies

As a kid we never had “expiry” dates. If milk was off, you could taste it. If the meat was off, it stank” Do you use placebo inhalers? Not for pr