article_snippet: Sarah Foot says that while with Tony a consultant with hostile body language came crashing in and started talking down to hostile body language  as Sarah Foot gave the diagnosis .
article_snippet: Sarah Foot crashes through the door, followed by half a dozen of Sarah Foot juniors, who crowd round his hospital bed and wait for Sarah Foot to speak.
article_snippet: Sarah Foot talks not at us, but down to us, like some reincarnation of the monstrous Sir Lancelot Spratt (played by James Robertson Justice) from the Doctor
article_snippet: Sarah Foot's new novel Fragments (Quercus, £19.99).
highlights_snippet: Sarah Foot says a consultant talked down at Sarah Foot and Sarah Foot sick husband .
  
highlights_snippet: Sarah Foot 'hostile body language' was 'telling me to shut up and know my place'
  Says that like all relatives, what Sarah Foot needed was kindness and support .