{"id":178,"date":"2006-03-05T21:14:07","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T21:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/03\/05\/commentary-on-lourdes-report\/"},"modified":"2006-03-05T21:15:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-05T21:15:04","slug":"commentary-on-lourdes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2006\/03\/05\/commentary-on-lourdes-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary on Lourdes Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahcarey.ie\/archives\/2006\/03\/05\/no-mercy-for-mothers-when-the-church-is-in-charge\">Sarah Carey&#8217;s valuable reflection<\/a> on the meaning of the Neary scandal<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Neary saga could only happen where an authority \u2014 be it religious, civil, medical or military \u2014 is permitted to operate without question and where professionals instinctively cover up for each other.<br \/>\nThe young midwives who eventually complained successfully about Neary were not the first. There had been others. On each occasion, Neary\u2019s colleagues could be counted on to reassure the complainant that everything was fine. It was Dr O\u2019Brien, Neary\u2019s colleague, who dismissed the matron\u2019s attempts to raise the issue in 1979. In 1998, three outside obstetricians said Neary\u2019s practice was legitimate. Their names don\u2019t appear in the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From George Bernard Shaw:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEvery profession is a conspiracy against the laity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Sarah Carey&#8217;s valuable reflection on the meaning of the Neary scandal The Neary saga could only happen where an authority \u2014 be it religious, civil, medical or military \u2014 is permitted to operate without question and where professionals instinctively cover up for each other. The young midwives who eventually complained successfully about Neary were not the first. There had been others. On each occasion, Neary\u2019s colleagues could be counted on to reassure the complainant that everything was fine. It was Dr O\u2019Brien, Neary\u2019s colleague, who dismissed the matron\u2019s attempts to raise the issue in 1979. In 1998, three outside obstetricians said Neary\u2019s practice was legitimate. Their names don\u2019t appear in the report. From George Bernard Shaw: Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-lourdes-hospital-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}