Ailing Public Hospitals In Bad Need Of Liposuction

I was not surprised to read "Angry surgeon labels hospital a war zone" about Royal North Shore Hospital (November 15). Public hospitals are now filled with faceless, nameless bureaucrats who scratch around for things to do to justify their employment. Dr Don Ross's misdemeanour of squirting saline solution would have seen them all galvanising into action, busily convening a month-long investigation into the incident.