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I never asked to be ICE’d

BMJ 2016; 354 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i3729 (Published 20 July 2016) Cite this as: BMJ 2016;354:i3729

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Re: I never asked to be ICE’d

I certainly didn’t ask to be ICEd. Having reacted initially with anxiety that whatever I said I was going to fail the diagnostic test, and look silly in front of this doctor’s expertise, I quickly went through the ‘He doesn’t know what the diagnosis is himself’, to ‘I can’t be part of this game’ and this made me so angry that I got up and walked out of the door. At the time – 15 years ago -- I assumed it was this particular doctor’s problem, since I had never encountered it elsewhere, but now I wonder. Were training courses suggesting ICEing as long ago as that?

Competing interests: No competing interests

26 July 2016
Mary Cheetham
retired doctor
New Marston