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Sat 09 Sep 2010Doctors cleared as inquiry into wrong kidney's removal ends
AN INQUIRY into the fitness to practise of two doctors following the removal of a wrong kidney from a child at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin, has ended dramatically.
A fitness to practice committee of the medical council, which was yesterday hearing allegations of professional misconduct against Prof Martin Corbally and junior doctor Sri Paran, adjourned for lunch for half an hour but did not sit in public again for more than two hours. When it did its chairman Dr John Monaghan indicated the case against the doctors was effectively over, even though another witness was due to be called and closing submissions had not been made by all sides.
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