Is your consultant really a specialist?
Patients can no longer assume that consultants have completed specialist training, as the HSE quietly hires doctors to fill top consultant posts at a range of hospitals
Imagine lying on an operating table awaiting a major operation when the anesthetist arrives to knock you out.
He is called a consultant, so you presume you are in the hands of a highly qualified specialist. How would you feel if you found out he was not a specialist after all?
And how would you feel if the consultant surgeon who was operating on you ...
