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Mon 09 Sep 2008Delay in review of locum's work
THE HEALTH Service Executive (HSE) was aware since September last year that a number of lung cancer patients in the northeast had been misdiagnosed, it has now emerged.
Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show a consultant respiratory physician at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Dr John Kiely, wrote to another consultant in the hospital on September 12th, 2007, about concerns raised "regarding two cases with apparent missed lung cancer X-ray findings".
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