YP Letters: Surgeons would be nothing without nurses
I HAVE just read Terry Morrell’s excellent letter saying that nursing must be a vocation, not an academic discipline (The Yorkshire Post, May 19).
I agree with every word of his letter and I hope the General Nursing Council and Royal College of Nursing choose to take note.
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Hide AdI am a retired general surgeon. I started my career in medicine in 1956 as a hospital porter and assistant to the theatre sister in Jessop Hospital, Sheffield.
I would not have been able to do my job as a surgeon without the guidance and help of nurses in the theatre or on the wards.
A doctor has a vocation to treat patients only with the help of nurses.
From: Elisabeth Baker, Leeds.
HOW I agree with Terry Morrell that not all nurses should be graduates.
A while ago I read in the Press of a nurse who, when asked to clear a patient’s vomit, said: “I am a graduate. I don’t do sick.”