Michael Harty (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Before something goes wrong, the worry from a professional point of view is that if one does not undertake every investigation possible one may misdiagnose and be liable to end up making an error, for instance, delayed diagnosis. It would be an issue here with open disclosure that there was a delay in diagnosis and one would have to mandatorily disclose that there was a delay in diagnosis. There might be pressures on the clinicians to engage in defensive medicine to ensure that there is absolutely no way that they can be left open to the accusation of a late diagnosis.