title: Stimulating nevertheless.
abstract: No doubt, returning from my holiday placed me in a particularly irritable and sensitive mood, no doubt and Barry Clifton's article 'Renaissance general nurse' (Nursing Standard Viewpoint August 7), was intended to provoke, if not irritate.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Studies (Mental Health) North London Joint College of Health Studies.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cook