Is it any wonder the Tauranga Public Hospital Emergency Department is overrun with outpatients when the Central Med in Devonport Rd is too busy to write out a prescription when a patient is in agony with gout, instead stating it takes 24 hours for a prescription to be written.
Maybe their Medical Centre has become more important than their own good and the good of their patients welfare.
It certainly needs to be taught a lesson in compassion.

John O'Rourke, Tauranga.