The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs

First of a two-part social experiment in which Dr Chris van Tulleken takes over part of a GP surgery and stops patients' prescription pills. He attemps to tackle a series of specific cases with alternative treatments to see how important the pills really are for the patients. He also tries to combat one of the biggest threats currently facing humanity - antibiotic resistance.

Second in the two-part social experiment in which Dr Chris van Tulleken takes over part of a GP surgery and stops patients' prescription pills. Dr Chris van Tulleken has been working in a GP surgery in east London for weeks trying to treat specially selected patients without drugs. Now he wants to use what he has learnt to supersize his social experiment and offer drug-free treatments to all 14,000 patients at the practice.