We don’t need any more ‘illness vultures’

I hear a lot about hospitals being overcrowded. After my experience at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, I believe that, except for the A&E, most of it is their own fault.

1) I was ordered there from south Wicklow, for early morning appointments, four times, for matters that could easily have been handled at Arklow Health Centre, or by my GP.

2) One was a repeat of something that Arklow had done. Another could easily have been handled by telephone. My polite remarks on those facts were treated with near-contempt. One answer was that some people had to come from New Ross, with the insinuation that coming from south Wicklow gave me no reason to complain.