Several years ago I met a lady at a function who had her leg in plaster.
When I asked her what happened she explained that she broke her leg on a skiing holiday in the French Alps.
My ears pricked up, I was interested in French medicine.
“How did they treat you ?” I asked her.
She got a dreamy look on her face “I have never been treated better ” she said. “The hospital was like a four star hotel, I was thinking of breaking the second leg so I could stay on ”

Nearly three years ago when Clive and I made our first trip out to France to work on the house we ended in accident and emergency in Beziers hospital and being enormously impressed by the treatment given there.
(That long story is told here or on 7/3/07 in the archives if that link don’t work.)

It makes you wonder as why the hospital services in France appear to be so much better than those in Ireland.

In this mornings Midi Libre there is a story of a man of 60 going into accident and emergency in Beziers hospital, being misdiagnosed by the doctor on duty and as a consequence he died eight days later.
His son pursued the matter in the courts and as a result the doctor was fined €5000 and sentenced to a year in prison.
The question I ask myself is would that happen in Ireland ?