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Faults found in hospitals treatment of elderly man

Posted on Dec 10, 2012 - 12:00 PM

ALISON HEALY A report into the case of a man (85) who died less than a week after he left Cavan General Hospital has found “significant shortcomings” surrounding his admission, including an “unacceptable” 31-hour stay in the emergency department. However, it said it was difficult to see how the outcome could have differed greatly. Father-of-eight Patsy Kernan, a farmer from Castleblayney, Co Monaghan died on Monday, May 21st, this year ...

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Book of evidence served on retired consultant charged with indecent assault of 16 patients

Posted on Oct 31, 2012 - 12:00 PM

A retired consultant surgeon has been sent forward for trial on charges of indecently assaulting 16 male patients. Eighty-year-old Michael Shine, who lives on Wellington Road, Dublin, is alleged to have carried out the assaults over three decades. Dr Shine is accused of indecently assaulting the patients at a private medical clinic and at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda on dates from the 1960s to the 1980s. He was first brought before Dublin District Court last July ...

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Hugh O rsquo Flaherty Lets put an end to costly medical cases and just do right by patients

Posted on Oct 15, 2012 - 11:00 PM

ONE would have to have a hard heart not to be moved by Louise Hogan’s account in Friday’s newspaper of the end result of the High Court case brought on behalf of the now 10-year-old Mark Duffy by his parents, Anthony and Linda Duffy. Mark is profoundly disabled and wheelchair-bound. He requires 24-hour care after suffering severe brain injuries and loss of an eye after contracting meningitis following his premature birth ...

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Tragic mums family to get euro 850k payout

Posted on Oct 11, 2012 - 11:00 PM

THE family of a 38-year-old woman who died in hospital hours after giving birth to her second child is to be paid €850,000, plus legal costs, by the HSE under a settlement of their High Court action. EVELYN Flanagan died at the hospital on October 19, 2007, as a result of serious complications following the birth of her daughter, Niamh. It was alleged she suffered a post-partum haemorrhage as a result of a rupture of the uterus which was not detected or adequately dealt with ...

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Tipperary solicitor hits out at how cancer misdiagnosis case was defended

Posted on Oct 11, 2012 - 11:00 PM

Cashel solicitor Cian O’Carroll has called for a ‘little more human decency’ in medical negligence cases following the settlement of a case in the High Court involving a Tipperary woman who had been misdiagnosed for breast cancer. The HSE has apologised to Olive Fahey, Littleton, County Tipperary whose breast cancer was misdaignosed three times over a 19-month period and who had to undergo a mastectomy when invasive cancer was eventually diagnosed ...

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Justice for victims of birth operation

Posted on Sep 25, 2012 - 11:00 PM

Sir, – Patient Focus along with SOS Ltd welcomes the highlighting of the symphysiotomy victims’ suffering (Marie O’Connor, Opinion, September 17th). Over the years we have supported, advocated for and represented 180 of the women and their families in their struggle for justice. A significant number of our clients are in their 70s and 80s. Indeed, frequently when we write to them we are then contacted by a family member to say they have sadly passed away ...

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