[fireman]

Thanks PENDY a very valid piont I agree and my wife who has now retired as a ward sister does too. The ignorance of lots of these sufferrers is their biggest enemy. TB can be treated but it takes a while to get rid of it. As soon as the patiennt starts to feel better they stop the very importannt course of medication and hence the disease returns in a more virulant form with a resistance to the drugs. I can also agree with LETTIE when the domestics on a ward were part of the ward team they were just as important as the nurses and most of them took a great deal of pride in making sure that the ward they looked after was the cleanest. Another piont as stated by LETTIE my wife used to play hell with many a doctor who seemed to think that he or she was above having to wash their hands between patients one would think that they would know better, but from what I have seen most of the junior doctors would be totally lost if an experienced sister wasn't to hand sorting them out.