Madam, - "The IMO will continue to defend the rights of doctors to act as advocates for their patients, especially those in the less well-off sections of our communities." So says Dr James Reilly, President of the Irish Medical Organisation, the doctors' union (July 24th).
In a producer/consumer relationship, you cannot back both because they have fundamentally different interests. If the IMO is an advocate for patients (who are the consumers of doctors' services), then it cannot simultaneously back its members, the doctors (i.e. the producers).
Dr Reilly should cut the double-speak. - Yours, etc.,
TONY ALLWRIGHT, Killiney, Co Dublin.