Dalrymple writes in the Telegraph against a government proposal to require nurses to have university degrees.
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However in his long career Dalrymple has encountered the occasional nurse he did’t like. A couple appear in his personal memoir ‘Fool or Physician’; he describes them as ‘old school nurses’ who have no truck with new fangled ideas, ‘like science’.
The first impression they made on the young Dr Daniels was how crisply white their uniforms were; in another evocative aside, he said he feared that staring at the ‘ample bosoms’ housed in the brilliant white uniforms could induce snow-blindness !