Pills for the Ward series contains a placebo of verse seeking a remedy to the social illnesses plaguing our world. Pages of stanza pump fresh analysis into the cause of festering pessimism throughout society to resuscitate the heartbeat of culture. Readers with unstable blood pressure should be warned that poems and plays, sandwiched between innocuous oil paintings, jostle for attention in their attempt to diagnose poor venerable society without dismissing it as simply ‘getting-on-a-bit’. Malingering thoughts are flung far from the hospital ward by poignant illuminated prose of x-ray perception penetrating into the fabric of society.