Columnist challenged on medical expertise

I WISH to support Margaret Browne’s request (Letters, June 29) for an apology from both you and Terry Prone for her column headlined ‘When it comes to the task of dying, ordinary people get the better deal’ (June 29).

Have you any idea of the upset and uncertainty it may have generated to cancer patients, particularly those having treatment on that day?

Oncologists and oncology nurses in this country are very highly qualified. I challenge Ms Prone as to her medical experience and education.

My life, as Ms Prone suggested, has not been shortened but enhanced. After surviving any serious illness one tends to value the important things in life and, of course, life itself. I would say to others upset by Ms Prone’s column, believe in your medical team – they are the people who know best.

Joan Moore

Woodview

Pinecroft

Grange

Douglas

Cork