Professor David Oliver is a doctor that I have huge respect for. His views, as expressed in the BMJ, and thus in short form, generally accord with mine [this is an observation and not a statement about the merit of our opinions].

As an NHS doctor who has ‘spoken up’ I read this ‘BMJ Acute Perspective’ by Professor Oliver with both interest and with gratitude.

I worry (perhaps I am not alone in this worry) if I might be considered as either “reasonable” or “unreasonable”? However I have a greater need, and that is to be true to who I am.

Truth generally rests between words like “reasonable” and “unreasonable”. This is  territory that needs freedom.