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Letter: Far too shy

Published 25 May 2002

From Jon Sutton

In a recent Feedback item, the managing director of Roche Australia is quoted as saying that social phobia can’t be that common (27 April), on the basis that when Roche tried to recruit people for clinical trials, he says “we just weren’t able to”. Surely there could have been millions, all hiding behind the couch.

Leicester

Issue no. 2344 published 25 May 2002

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