{"id":483693,"date":"2026-06-05T02:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/483693\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:03:16","slug":"human-connection-must-not-be-lost-in-healthcare-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/483693\/","title":{"rendered":"Human connection must not be lost in healthcare \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 Muiris Houston (Health &amp; Family, June 3rd) once again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/health\/your-wellness\/2026\/06\/01\/how-healthcare-must-reconnect-with-its-core-values-to-improve-patient-and-staff-wellbeing\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/health\/your-wellness\/2026\/06\/01\/how-healthcare-must-reconnect-with-its-core-values-to-improve-patient-and-staff-wellbeing\/\">reminds us of the importance of kindness and the human connection<\/a>: \u201cA recent opinion piece in the British Medical Journal argue that modern healthcare is facing a moral emergency\u201d \u2013 who could disagree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Patients increasingly feel processed rather than cared for \u2013 as if following a business model. This is happening at speed in so many areas of work in the statutory and voluntary sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">To move forward we must first acknowledge that fact. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Physician\u2019s Prayer, the words of Robert Hutchison (1873 \u2013 1960) of the London Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital and the president of the Royal College of Physicians continue to remind me of the challenges facing us all:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cFrom inability to let well alone, from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old, from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense, from treating patients as cases and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, good Lord deliver us\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Yours, etc, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">ALICE LEAHY,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Director of Services,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Alice Leahy Trust,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bride Road, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin 8. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 Muiris Houston (Health &amp; Family, June 3rd) once again reminds us of the importance of kindness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-483693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}