Madam, - Have we lost our sense of shame? In this time of economic prosperity, how can we condone the practice of frail, elderly patients waiting for days on hospital trolleys for admission to hospital?
Are we so taken up with material well-being and technology that we have lost our hearts? Surely we're not that incompetent and selfish. - Yours, etc.,
Dr KEN MULPETER,
Chair, Irish Society of Physicians in Geriatric Medicine,
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Letterkenny General Hospital,
Letterkenny,
Co Donegal.