Michael O'Halloran Appreciation

Sir, – May I be permitted to add a short postscript to Michael Moriarty’s appreciation of Michael O’Halloran (August 4th)? As Church of Ireland chaplain in St Luke’s Hospital for over 16 years during the 1970s and 1980s I was deeply conscious of two interrelated aspects of Prof O’Halloran’s work – his bedside manner and his capacity to give comfort to so many patients (including this writer) at times of great anxiety. These, in addition to the professional ability outlined in the appreciation, produced a unique operator in his chosen field of medicine. He was indeed, as Michael Moriarty writes, a “caring doctor”. – Yours, etc,

RT REV ROY WARKE,

Kerdiff Park,

Naas,

Co Kildare