I had a heavy cold and she [my doctor] asked if I had asthma – I was
thinking, ‘You should be telling me!’ I went onto the preventer and
the reliever – it was good since, except when hot and dry or very cold.
I consider (myself) lucky to have developed it later.
Julie added, ‘Doctors play a more significant role – I think
sometimes the doctor doesn’t know what he is talking about’.
Jim raised another aspect of medical management: