The perils of asking for a second opinion

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/apr/03/perils-of-asking-second-opinion

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Your Good Friday editorial was brilliant (3 April). It struck home so pointedly and poignantly that I was tempted to use it as my sermon, instead of the rubbish I’d already written. Of course, it’s likely the congregation would complain that it’s too political, “real” religion being about, er, something else. Plus ça change!Fr Alec MitchellManchester

• One of my favourite – and from your perspective, hopefully apocryphal – doctors’ abbreviations (Letters, 2 April) is Gries – “Guardian reader in ethnic skirt” – signifying a potentially “difficult” patient. Whatever could they mean? Alan BudgeBuxton, Derbyshire

• I’m surprised no one has told the story about asking their GP for a second opinion and being told, “You’re ugly as well”.John PetrieLeeds