Heart failure taught me that hospitals are built on people - Glenn Dwight

Opinion byStudio creative director and occasional writer ·The Country·1 Aug, 2026 05:15 PM6 mins to readGlenn Dwight is the studio creative director – regional at NZME and an occasional writer for The Country.‌The moments I remember most from the hospital weren’t particularly medical, writes Glenn Dwight. Photo / korawig, 123rfTowards the end of last year, I found myself in hospital after heart failure, connected with more wires than the back of my television.According to my notes, I was classified as an “acute patient”. Now, being a drip-half-full kind of patient, I just assumed they’d forgotten the space and