It's been another day of snow-induced chaos in the NHS. Personally I've spent it sitting in an office with a packet of throat lozenges and a box of clinical tissues, trying to keep my voice going long enough to phone a lengthy list of patients and cancel their appointments for today and tomorrow. Half of them seemed to be engaged. Mostly, it transpired, because they were trying to phone us for exactly the same reason.

We did speak to one chap who was very angry that we were refusing to send a screener from Brighton to Crowborough tomorrow. The roads might be impassable, and the cottage hospital virtually cut off from the outside world, but as he put it to us on the phone, "it's only snow". It's hard to argue with logic like that. I expect the man breeds huskies for a living.

But amidst the snow flakiness, I did receive one of the most startling work-related e-mails I've ever had. It came courtesy of one of the health centres where we hold screening clinics every week, and it requested that we no longer leave our camera by the wall at the side of the consulting room, and instead store it in the opposite corner. That's not the startling bit. The startling bit is the reason why they want us to move it. Apparently their mental health team want to start using the room's two-way mirror, and we're blocking their view.

FOR SEVEN MONTHS I'VE BEEN DOING CLINICS IN A ROOM WITH A TWO-WAY MIRROR?????

I dread to think how many people have watched me pluck my nose hairs between patients. No wonder I heard a response when I asked who was the fairest screener of them all.