Doctors fear reduction in council’s standards
Plans to introduce a lay majority on the Irish Medical Council will bring about a drastic reduction in the council’s practice standards, according to hundreds of doctors around the country.
Plans to introduce a lay majority on the Irish Medical Council will bring about a drastic reduction in the council’s practice standards, according to hundreds of doctors around the country.
The Medical Council’s membership support committee claims that any attempt by the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, to ‘‘railroad the medical profession’’ into accepting a lay majority to regulate the profession was ‘‘utterly insensitive and insulting’’ to the profession....
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