Terry Prone: My moles proved a bit of a snooze fest for the surgeon

'Being told that two moles that just might be cancerous were boring to the man excising them was oddly dispiriting'

Just because some doctors find the
routine stuff ‘boring’ doesn’t mean it isn’t a big deal to the patient. Picture: iStock

A couple of years ago, the last time I had a skin cancer removed, the surgeon got shirty with me halfway through. That was when she found that I was following what she was at in the mirrored surface of the lights overhead. I was not to do that, she told me.

“Why not? It’s interesting.”