Five programmes eavesdropping on the wards, clinics and corridors of London's Middlesex Hospital. 3: Changing Attitudes
'Often our patients are regarded as end-stage, or dying.... but the bulk of them are not like that at all. They have a specific problem with which they have to live, rather than from which they're going to die.'
Overcoming the fears and prejudices not only of patients and the public, but also of other doctors, is one of the tasks faced by those caring for patients with cancer.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS. Stereo