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Wed 03 Mar 2009AE 'system' should prompt outrage
Madam, – In a Late Late Show interview some years ago, the wife of a former US ambassador to Ireland said the Irish had “no sense of outrage”. In present-day Ireland, citizens’ apparent stoical acceptance of systematic corruption and malpractice in politics, business and banking makes that opinion still valid. And nowhere is the accusation more applicable than in our toleration of a third-rate health service – in particular, the “system” governing AE departments in our hospitals.
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