[SIZE=2]The lack of accountability of the HSE and of health staff is the real cause of the hospital crisis Writes[/SIZE][SIZE=2] Brenda Power.[/SIZE]

Wherever two or more people gather to bemoan the state of our hospitals, be it about hygiene, diagnostics or patient care, sooner or later somebody will mention the nuns. In fact just about the only time you’ll hear a heartfelt lament for the decline of religious influence in Irish life is when talk turns to the chaos and filth of our public hospitals. Say what you like about the church, runs the consensus, but dying cancer patients were never sent home from hospital with a couple of aspirins when the nuns were in charge. And you could eat your dinner off the floors of the public wards.

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Just to pick one hospital [Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda] we know of Michael Neary's skills with the butcher's knife and today we read about Dr Michael Shine, who's been struck off the medical register for professional misconduct.

Yeah "professional misconduct" is the new term for "indecently or sexually assaulting male patients."

RTE NEWS

RE: Brenda Power's article: Most of the above happened while the hospital was under the management of ....... nuns!