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Fri 09 Sep 2010Doctor had time to prepare for surgery, inquiry told
A JUNIOR doctor had at least 30 minutes to prepare to operate on a child who needed to have a kidney removed, the consultant who asked him to carry out the operation has claimed.
Prof Martin Corbally, the most senior paediatric surgeon at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin, told a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry yesterday that suggestions Dr Sri Paran had just five minutes to prepare for the surgery were wrong.
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