Over the course of two previous books, Seamus O’Mahony, recently retired consultant gastroenterologist at Cork University Hospital, has established himself as a clear-eyed and articulate commentator on modern medicine and healthcare systems. He has written brilliantly about our expectations around life, death, disease and modern doctoring, debunking myths and challenging fallacies, including the notion that medicine can save us all. Now, he has a new book, The Ministry of Bodies, that began as a kind of “year in the life of” a busy hospital. A few months into that year – 2019 – O...