Health service standard life punters get respect while highly trained professionals get a duster

Do you ever wake up sweaty worrying that we may have got it wrong? Possibly not if you are a full-time nurse and therefore by definition too worn out to be roused by anything other than a light aircraft touching down on the duvet. But in my more insomniac moments, when I have exhausted the usual things to fret about and the only topics left are John Reid and which sock to put on first, I do sometimes wonder whether recent health secretaries have led us up the garden path.