Show painted a false picture

Sir, – I am writing to endorse and support the comments made by senior charge nurse Sarah Wiseman about the biased BBC following the “Care” drama (Courier Letters, December 15) and to give your readers my experiences as a leukaemia patient receiving chemotherapy treatment.

The staff in day ward 34 are extremely busy from the start of the day administering toxic cancer killing drugs via drips and blood transfusions for other patients on other haematology regimes.

Each patient must receive their correct and individualised pouches and great care is taken to ensure no errors are made during the procedures that can last as long as six or seven hours.

They have taken multi-tasking to super hero levels.

At all times this is all done with tremendous patience, kindness and efficiency and is a great

comfort and confidence booster to patients at a low physical and emotional ebb.

Anyone in the NHS Tayside area who receives the devastating news that they have leukaemia or another serious blood disorder can be reassured that their experiences at haematology will be quite different from that seen in the negative and prejudiced BBC show.

The same professionalism and caring culture is also displayed by frontline skin cancer doctors and nurses within the dermatology department.

Perhaps the BBC programme makers could turn their forensic spotlight inwards.

They could then produce a documentary on the £87 million Eastenders set extension that is years behind schedule and causing untold grief for the nearby residents whose quality of life has been ruined in the process.

As TV licence payers we are all footing the bill for this and other BBC follies. Ron Scrimgeour. 39 Gowan Rigg , Forfar.