[-pixie]

I have no objection to being treated by someone who isn't English, but there is nothing more annoying than a foreign doctor/nurse who is so heavily accented that you can't tell what they are saying. This happened to me and I had to ask the nurse who was with the doctor to "translate". She blushed and admitted that she had no idea. Luckily it was nothing serious, but I found the whole thing quite disturbing.