Sir, - I refer to the letter (January 22nd) from Dr M.B. Walshe headed "Medical Ethics".
I would like your readers to know that the Irish Medical Council has not made a call for guidance on how the media deals with suicide. The particular national weekend paper to which Dr Walshe referred is being asked to issue a correction in this regard as the call would appear to have been made by the Irish Medical Organisation.
I should like to add that the Medical Council is responsible for giving guidance to the medical profession generally on all matters relating to ethical conduct and behaviour and to comply with this, an Ethical Guide is published, the latest edition of which is January 1994. - Yours, etc.,
Registrar, Medical Council, Portobello Court, Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6.