"SQUEAMISH readers, be warned: you should skip straight to the crossword now." So said Chris Titley in his latest diatribe (January 31).

Mr Titley goes on to relate a sick story about a sick medical student hanging about in public toilets; very enlightening.

The fact that Mr Titley finds it necessary to waste one third of his column on this infantile story displays an astonishing lack of judgement and an absence of journalistic intellect.

Presumably Mr Titley was trying to emphasise the notion that doctors develop a chilling detachment from human remains.

Is Mr Titley mentally unemployed?

Robert Holmes,

Thorganby,

York.

Updated: 11:01 Tuesday, February 06, 2001