I took someone to hospital recently – not as a patient, but as a visitor to see their son who seems to spend an inordinate amount of time in one ward or another. I have long suspected he has imaginary illnesses but it’s difficult to get the relative to see…

In these busy times of needing more nd more care for our elders and huge numbers of poorly folk, there needs to be organised training courses for students in the medical profession. Many carers do that job through family necessity but would in fact be much better carers all round…

When I was on vacation with family recently, I went with them to the local medical centre for their son to have a chest x-ray and blood tests as he’d been unwell for a couple of weeks and their physician had for a precaution, suggested these routes.  It’s not free…

I was out at a luncheon party the other week – celebrating a big wedding anniversary.  The invitees were all known to me by virtue of the hostess was a relative.  One of the party, less well known to me personally, is a nursing operative.   I was intregued.  It turns…

I have recently made many visits to one of our major teaching hospitals – taking an ancient relative to see her son who has been in there for some 10 weeks.  He’s had a great deal of hospital treatment over the years and sadly doesn’t seem to get a lot…

January can be such an odd month – very much a low down after the excitement of Christmas and the new year festivities for most families.  However, where there are nurses and hospital staff amongst us, we will be familiar with duty rotas that intrude and make us feel we’re…

I was working as private secretary to the judiciary for several years and one colleague joined the typing pool – she was bubbly and an excellent typist.  She needed to be as the amount of work that stacked up was phenomenal.  She could decipher even the most spider like scrawl…

When you go through school you’re asked what you think you want to be when you grow up – a daft question really.  No youngster has any idea about what any job involves at that age, unless of course they come from a family of doctors or specialists in any…

I have a relative who has been in nursing since leaving school – she did her degree at a big teaching university hospital and has never really thought about any other career.  Things change and move on of course – after a working career on orthopaedics, she suddenly decided to…

There are some truly amazing documentaries on tv these days.  The range from watching someone beetling around the country collecting debt repayments from the lifelong debtors and the sharp end of the crown prosecution service – how they come to the decision to allow police to prosecute in cases.  There…