Three emergency doctors serving one million people is heart-stopping

If two former health ministers like Varadkar and Martin can’t knock their heads together across the negotiating table and sort our health system in 2016 we have no right to call ourselves developed, democratic or free, writes Victoria White

I HAD this column planned. I had a stack of books lined up in front of me on Monday night and I had every intention of ploughing through them so that you could plough through my oh-so-perceptive thoughts on the state of the planet.

Then the chest pains started. I tried to ignore them but they kept coming back. I’d had just the same pains last week. I also had two weeks of seeing stars, feeling breathless and my head swimming. I began to get scared.