Agreed, Boxie. It's normally the nurse that carries out syringing, and our Health Centre nurses have all been trained to do it, and are perfectly capable. But for some reason, (apart from the excuse given), our local doctors don't want to refer us to the nurse unless we demand it.
I think that we are all getting rather confused here.
Hearing tests are done basically for two reasons:
Firstly as routine screening....works etc......no syringing necessary.
Secondly for diagnostic reasons after medical consultation.....here , syringing is necessary of wax is present.