REGARDING your report headlined "Nurses quip made me flip" (LET, March 4), Mrs Christine Wilkin-Wyke received an apology from the Blackburn Infirmary trust for being spoken to in what I consider to be a widely-used local colloquial manner -- perhaps in the nurse's way of being friendly and trying to reassure Mrs Wilkin-Wyke who was suffering from a panic attack.
If Mrs Wilkin-Wyke was so offended at such a minor expression it's no wonder she suffers panic attacks.
I feel that if anyone should be given an apology it should be the nursing staff of Blackburn Infirmary who do a terrific job under many extreme circumstances.
If Mrs Wilkin-Wyke had been treated badly, she would have been quite right to complain. But we are talking about the nursing and caring profession not the diplomatic service.
ROY DAVIES, Olive Lane, Darwen.
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