A similar thing happened to me with my GP telling me to go to A&E. I suffer with eczema in my ear canals. Every few years, my ears get bunged up and they need syringing. I woke up one morning (almost 9 months pregnant) with my ears completely blocked. This is painful, I can't hear and it makes me dizzy. So I rang the GP to make an appointment with the practice nurse to be told (and I quote verbatim), "our nurse doesn't do ears". DOESN'T DO EARS????? I'm going to adopt that idea to my work. Any tasks I'm not too keen on, I'm just going to claim I don't do them. The GP refused to syringe them himself as it is a nurse's job. So, they told me to go to A&E. Horribly embarrassed, I arrived at A&E reception and explained the problem. I was duly triaged. Unfortunately, because I was heavily pregnant and 'dizzy' I had to have an ECG and a foetal monitor..... I had been stuck on this monitor for 2 hours, pleading for someone to look in my ears as there was nowt wrong with my heart or with the baby, I just had bunged up ears. The ENT SHO agreed to see me on the ENT ward but I wasn't allowed to walk because I was 'pregnant and dizzy' so had to be wheeled up... I'm staff at this hospital and I saw just about everyone I knew, who all assumed I was in labour. I was so embarrassed explaining that I was in hospital, in a wheelchair because my ears were bunged up. Finally, the lovely ENT SHO hoovered out the goo and I was instantly better. What a palarva - and all caused because my practice nurse 'doesn't do ears'.