It was at the end of a long working day and, more relevantly, a very long week in the life of their workplace, when the consultants of Tallaght hospital trooped in for a special meeting of the medical board last Monday evening. There was only one item up for discussion – the adverse publicity the hospital had received in the preceding days. The revelation a 91-year-old patient had spent 29 hours on a trolley had generated banner headlines, which grew larger when it emerged that the hospital had ordered an investigation into the leak. Just three years after the publication of a damning report on the way the hospital was run, Tallaght was back in the news. Most of the consultants present were...
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