Knowledge is power!

During the time I’ve been treated at Cookridge Hospital I’ve met many very interesting people. The patients there seem to come from a far more varied, educated and cosmopolitan background than those being treated at the Macmillan Centre in Halifax were last year.

However, in spite of this I have been astonished over the past three and a bit months by how little the majority know, or want to know about their treatment. Very few people know the names of the drugs they’re being given or let alone their likely side effects most seeming to have the attitude that ignorance is indeed bliss. I find it hard to understand how people can still hand their bodies over to the medical profession without any sense of unease or questioning. I remain convinced that knowledge is power!

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