Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I do not know the specific case to which the Senator refers but we need to be careful about the difference between misdiagnosis and the limitations of medicine and of screening and diagnostic tools. We are beginning to have a big debate on this. I am starting to wonder if we are reaching a point in modern medicine where doctors use the tools available and some of those tools have limitations. That is a separate point to when things go wrong and there are mistakes which is a different matter.
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