There are genuine concerns being raised this week about the future provision of hospital services across Oban and Lorn.
Make no mistake: the threat to the existing services offered at Lorn and Islands Hospital in the town is real and tangible.
Other hospitals across Scotland – including the Vale of Leven at Alexandria, to which people from Argyll and the Isles used to be transferred routinely – have seen a debilitating diminution in the treatments and services they can provide.