A CORK Garda superintendent with terminal cancer fears there could be a repeat of the kind of medical error that destroyed his life.

A DOCTOR who admitted trying to cover up his failure to note a recommendation of further surgery for a now terminally ill patient behaved disgracefully, the Irish Medical Council’s fitness to practise committee said yesterday.

MISTAKES can be made in any profession but those who make them must be man enough to put their hands up, Superintendent Martin Dorney told the Medical Council inquiry in Cork just over a week ago.

A GARDA given just months to live after his doctor failed to pass on test results – and then tried to cover it up – has said his family is “facing down the barrel of a gun”.

WHEN Pauline Dorney asked her family doctor if her husband would be around to see his son graduate from college, he could not answer.