For years, medical staff have laboured under the impression that nurses are the ones who know about ‘bed-sores’, wounds, and the horrible things that a doctor does not want to bother about. There are times, of course, when doctors think it is good fun to infuriate nurses by insisting that a patient with an ischial pressure ulcer should be sitting out all day in order to help him/her get better more quickly, and consequently be discharged home sooner.