Sir, – There has been recent debate in these columns about the suitability or otherwise of certain personality types to be doctors. In four decades of medical practice, I have heard colleagues being described along a wide and varying spectrum as bastards, bitches, psychopaths, thugs and bullies through to gentlemen, ladies, dotes, darlings, saints and martyrs. Surely proof in itself that there is a place for all sorts in medicine? – Yours, etc,
Dr CHARLES DALY,
Abbeyside,
Dungarvan, Co Waterford.