Thank you to those who have posted replies - they have brought a smile to my face, and in some cases led me to choke on my breakfast. When I was running aeromedical services we provided a short course for pilots on the effects of air transportation on sick patients as well as trying to teach them common terms the back of the cabin might use. We also insisted all medical crew had some basic aviation knowledge - not to fly the aircraft but to understand the effects of attitude as well as altitude, ATC restrictions, crew duty hours etc etc. Then we put in place a Chinese wall so the front were not aware of the patient's condition and the rear were ignorant of fuel, weather, etc et on a particular flight.
Sadly it seems some medical crew are ignorant of pressure changes and even how to use a balloon pump. In one FW service I am aware of they routinely pressurise to sea level. Clearly this is resulting in risk for RW when pilots understandably have to follow such requests. May be these courses need to be resuscitated......