{"id":265,"date":"2006-06-03T10:50:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T09:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/06\/03\/a-vignette-from-dr-nearys-heyday\/"},"modified":"2006-06-03T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T09:50:25","slug":"a-vignette-from-dr-nearys-heyday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2006\/06\/03\/a-vignette-from-dr-nearys-heyday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vignette From Dr. Neary’s Heyday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miss Fitz <\/a>was a student midwife in Lourdes hospital while Dr. Neary was the consultant there. <\/p>\n

I recall so vividly a day that this man was going to do the ward rounds. Well in advance, we were sent around to all the women, whose beds formed a U-shape down the walls and across the bottom. There were probably about 30 or so in the ward, and we had to pull their nightdresses above their ‘bumps’ to their chest, and the sheet down to just below. I remember standing in the doorway and surveying the pink bumps, all sizes and shapes, like so many melons in a row in a field.<\/p>\n

Neary entered the ward, with his coterie of medical and nursing students and a great silence fell upon us. He made his way from bed to bed, never speaking except to the Sister, feeling, probing and grunting. About half way down, he came to the bed of a young mother, who broke the stillness and asked ‘Doctor, is my baby alright’.<\/p>\n

He stopped and stared at her, spoke in the ear of the Sister and walked to the next bed. Sister turned to the patient and hissed, “You are only a patient, you never, never address Mr Neary to his face”. I left Drogheda after 2 months, deciding midwifery was not my bag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After his actions caught up with him, insofar as they have, 44 patients’ files (38 of which were Neary’s patients) were removed from the hospital illegally by a person or persons trying to protect him. Another attack on the women who were ‘only patients’. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miss Fitz was a student midwife in Lourdes hospital while Dr. Neary was the consultant there. I recall so vividly a day that this man was going to do the ward rounds. Well in advance, we were sent around to all the women, whose beds formed a U-shape down the walls and across the bottom. There were probably about 30 or so in the ward, and we had to pull their nightdresses above their ‘bumps’ to their chest, and the sheet down to just below. I remember standing in the doorway and surveying the pink bumps, all sizes and shapes, like so many melons in a row in a field. Neary entered the ward, with his coterie of medical and nursing students and a great silence fell upon us. He made his way from bed to bed, never speaking except to the Sister, feeling, probing and grunting. About half way down, he came to the bed of a young mother, who broke the stillness and asked ‘Doctor, is my baby alright’. He stopped and stared at her, spoke in the ear of the Sister and walked to the next bed. Sister turned to the patient and hissed, “You are only a patient, you never, never address Mr Neary to his face”. I left Drogheda after 2 months, deciding midwifery was not my bag. After his actions caught up with him, insofar as they have, 44 patients’ files (38 of which were Neary’s patients) were removed from the hospital illegally by a person or persons trying to protect him. Another attack on the women who were ‘only patients’.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[34,35,669,197,32],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-lourdes-hospital-report","tag-harding-clarke-report","tag-irish-medical-council","tag-lourdes-hospital-report","tag-lourdes-hospital","tag-neary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","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=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}