Like Althea's mother, Express Readers are blissfully unaware of what it takes to be a doctor.

I was chatting to my GP about stress recently (how I'm not since I retired) and remarked that I feel a fraud talking about responsibility-stress to someone who could make a simple mistake and cause someone's premature death, when the worst I could do was cause them to have to retake an exam (an exaggeration, but not by much - teachers deal with life-threatening situations too, but not every day).
She smiled, but the smile was wan.

I think medical professionals are, in the huge majority, quite exceptional people, both in their sense of duty and care and in their willingness and ability to shoulder decisions and responsibilities that most people never come close to in their entire lives - and do it many times a day. One profession of which I am in awe.

Mostly because they are utterly ignorant of the real world as it is, and they think that everyone is as mentally limited and dull as they are. They are, in the phrase, so stupid that they don't realise they're thick.

Intelligence is the character trait the British never discuss.

Mailies and Expressites don't understand what is involved, and think anybody could.

"Top Priority" for who?

Flying EDL colours at the bottom. That's a bit extreme for a bunch of doddering old twits.

George Osborne according to the paper I saw in the newsagents.