Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will look at the transcript. I have a problem with that. I am not a physician and nor do I claim to be but from a human perspective and as a representative, ignoring or dismissing the patient experience as a placebo or as him or her being fed an answer is not a message I expect the witnesses would like to send out, given that 12 physicians or officials from the Department and various other bodies are in the room. However that is very much the one that I have received.

I am concerned for patient safety. If a senior physician like Dr. Sheehan is calling the view and practice of another physician as inaccurate in its outcomes -----