The carers at Launceston General Hospital deliver exemplary service and care but, they themselves deserve better care and conditions – sadly, that's all too evident.
Having been involved in an accident, I was a grateful recipient of the hospital’s emergency and ongoing care for two weeks. The paramedic’s professionalism, along with the medical and nursing staff’s care, was outstanding.
Launcestonians are indeed well served despite the State government’s up to now warped priorities. The surreal and serial failures of three successive Ministers for Health is telling. So, let’s hope that Minister Archer can do what her predecessors did not, could not or would not do.
The hospital’s carers are stretched to their limits all too often. Nonetheless, they keep on keeping on. Evidently, once you start out as a career carer, you just can't stop.
A smile, a patient ear, an acknowledgement, and the smallest act of caring, comes as powerful medicine. The potential to heal in all this turns lives around.
Ray Norman
Launceston
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