You may not have noticed that Johnny Hallyday is unwell although it has been in the papers a little. Googling "Johnny Hallyday health" produces 88,100 hits in English in the past week but the equivalent French search produces 726,000 references.

Not only that but the English reports are very restrained in dealing with the doctor whose alleged errors in a recent slipped disc operation on the star in Paris have led to his hospitalisation this week in Los Angeles. The French press on the other hand list numerous events in the doctor's chequered past from insurance fraud to judicial condemnations for medical malpractice.

Johnny's fans were not so restrained either. Two of them beat the doctor up a couple of nights ago.

I don't believe that in the UK he would still be practising medicine, so if that's the much vaunted French health system I don't want it thanks. And you have to ask yourself why a rock star with millions at his disposal would place himself in the hands of someone with such a record.