【明報專訊】BECAUSE the incidence of influenza has peaked in Hong Kong this summer, its public hospitals are insupportably overloaded. Their doctors and nurses are utterly exhausted. In describing the critical situation, some doctors have said "the public healthcare system is about to collapse" and they feel terribly desperate and helpless. The Hospital Authority has come up with some short-term countermeasures, but it remains to be seen whether they will slightly ease our public hospitals' difficulties.