Androgyny please, Sir

Dr Garrett FitzGerald believes the health service — like most walks of life — would benefit enormously by having women take over the controls and bring balance for the benefit of patients. In the Spring sunshine, I visited a newly-found relative at his rural farmhouse. A single man of advancing years, he finds himself unable to keep up with his once-passionate gardening hobby and the overgrowth is in the early stages of its inevitable and relentless takeover. Inside the farmhouse, the relics of auld decency. Spartan is an understatement; a home frozen in time, 1940s at the latest, some detail…