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Wed 11 Nov 2009Woman wrongly diagnosed, husband tells hearing
A MEDICAL Council hearing yesterday was told by a father of two young children that his wife had died after what was supposed to be a straightforward hospital procedure.
Martin O’Connor, from Claregalway, Co Galway, told the Medical Council’s fitness to practise committee how his wife Saundra (39) had been misdiagnosed. Ms O’Connor was misdiagnosed when she went for the routine procedure and spent almost three years in a vegetative state before she died in February 2008.
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