Private sector employees could learn from caring hospital staff

IT’S a long time since I had my appendix removed at the age of nine, but I had prepared myself for a war zone situation when I found that I would be spending a week as an inmate of an Irish hospital.

Like, many of your readers, I had assumed that Rome had fallen on the wards as well as in the strategic planning and administration divisions of the country’s hospitals.

It came as a most pleasant surprise, then, to find that my experience in a public ward in Cork this week was quite the opposite.