Excerpt from oral history with bio-engineer David Gow (DG), interviewed for Lothian Health Services Archive by Carmen Hesketh (CH). Transcription:

CH: “Why is rehabilitation medicine seen as different to acute medicine?”

DG: “There’s the question. If you answer that truthfully, it would take you twenty minutes, but I’ll answer it as I see it. Rehab medicine is old fashioned because it’s, less face it, old patients – mainly deals with old patients -; it costs an arm and a leg to put people in the hospital and keep them in hospital; and nobody in their right minds who is in the healthcare system who wants to make money from their organisation would keep rehab as part of it.”