11.   Neither hospital was sufficiently remote from its catchment area to warrant the intervention of the centre to impose closure.

12.   Nursing in public hospitals was also pensionable, while the more prestigious voluntary hospitals were early pension providers.

13.   Our hospitals are short of cash.

14.   Add to that the long hours doctors work, and you have a recipe for disaster.

15.   Public hospitals are concerned that they will not have enough money to treat indigent people not covered by Medicaid.

16.   Remember that the hospital is in the business of selling services, and these include diagnostic tests.

17.   Stand-alone hospitals are an endangered species unless they have a unique service to offer.

18.   The general hospitals were overcrowded and could do little for them in their advanced stages of illness.

19.   The hospital has been the target of investigative journalism.