When ever I've needed A&E I haven't given a tuppeny where the doctor/nurse was from and their skin colour.

Talking of the NHS, the Minister for Murdoch now plans to sell of lashings more of our health service so that his mates can stick their noses even further into the trough.

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It wouldn't be top of my list if my heart was packing in, I just need them to know what they are doing.

oohh, I much prefer a nice little asian nurse tending to my every need



much more sympathetic than the stern, stony faced western nurses....

...well, we all have our little foibles...

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can't help it WZ ! old MN habits die hard...

"we may as well be taking double-Dutch as none of the doctors have a clue what we are talking about as junior's condition is beyond their knowledge and expertise"

flamin' 'ell, Dally not only are you a top economist, a political guru, and the mouth piece of sensible people, but you are a medical consultant as well.

Hats off to you ... you know more than people who have studied and practiced medicine for over 6 years.

It's a fact I'm afraid. But that's because most doctors are either generalists (who do not have relevant specialism) or specialists in other fields. What is disappointing though is when young hospital doctors have not heard of a VNS device. I can understand people who trained years ago. I have resolved not to explain it again to a doctor. They could try Google or Wiki rather than me!

Mind you the young doctor on Saturday somewhat lacked observational skills. Blood was pouring from a deep, wide cut and she wanted to try to clean junior up to see where the blood was coming from! When I pointed the bleeding (literally) obvious out she was of the opinion it was an indentation rather than a cut! I kid you not.

like in all fields with humans: variations, successes and failures.

I can relate (from my few but serious occasions with the medics) bad and good: people only want to hear the bad.

You asked a question about my daughter's condition and doctors. No doctor short of a consultant and even then a consultant with specialism will make any decision about her. It's left to us and the consultants. GP won't. Local hospital won't. Top consultants are wise enough to state that we are the experts about her and advise us to try to steer clear of A&E's where possible!

Ah Dally, you're coming out as the sort of muppet who I deal with regularly now.

I work with (amongst others) people with Autism and the amount of parents, and other important others for that matter, who think that it's a 'one cap fits all' condition is unbelievable, and they all think they know better because they've read up on it.

Have you ever considered that you may actually be wrong and that professionals actually know what they're doing?