‘And how do you feel about the fact that he could easily die? Are you nervous?’ ‘Absolutely not. Jim will be dead in days if we don’t try. No one else is going to help.’ ‘Do you think that the NHS should pay for these pumps?’ I answered that with a question of my own. ‘Should a First World health-care system use modern technology to prolong life? Or should it let young heart failure patients die miserably, like in the Third World?’ The BBC liked that answer, but they didn’t broadcast it in the programme. Too controversial and intimidating.
