It sounds like he did do it right.
If you look at the
SIGN guidelines, you'll see that "getting it right" isn't always an exact science, and sometimes a trial with inhalers is the correct thing to do.
Cough medicines don't work. Full stop.
But I guess they're sometimes useful for placating the odd wimp with a sore throat and a sniffle, who probably doesn't know his gluteus maximus from his olecranium
