Doctor’s honesty and conviction gave us hope for the future
Echo Reader
Dear Editor,
SOMEONE once said ‘the measure of any society is how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable citizens’.
Over the past 10 days or so the recent leaked memo sent by Dr James Gray has led me to cast my mind back to the night of March 1, 2011 when my father, a citizen of this country, was weak and vulnerable, yet was treated, in my opinion, poorly.
He eventually died while on a trolley in the Accident and Emergency Department of Tallaght Hospital, alone, without his family by his side.
At the inquest into his death, Dr Gray, amongst others, spoke about the care my father had received, how he had been admitted and left to sit on a chair for six hours before being transferred to a trolley on a ‘virtual ward’.
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