Praising the health service

Madam, - John Powell, a self-confessed cynic, wants to know (July 21st) whether the excellent medical treatment referred to in…

Madam, - John Powell, a self-confessed cynic, wants to know (July 21st) whether the excellent medical treatment referred to in my earlier letter was public or private. Well, I'm delighted to tell him - though I suspect that he won't like the answer - that I received every part of my various high-tech treatments as a public patient. - Yours, etc,

DAVID SOWBY, Knocksinna Crescent, Dublin 18.