Humbug, health and humanity: a patient's tale of care in a public teaching hospital.

The author of this article claims it is a fair description of her recent experience as an inpatient in an unidentified major public teaching hospital. The name of the hospital has been withheld at our request. The Australian Health Review has no reason to believe her account is inaccurate but readers will draw their own conclusions. The comments of the Chief Executive of a similar hospital are appended, but it is not the hospital in question – which will remain nameless.