Two sides to doctor at centre of scandal

THERE are two conflicting images of Dr Michael Neary which cloud the otherwise clear-cut verdict of the High Court, which yesterday found him medically negligent in the first of more than 60 legal actions being taken against him.

The first is of a workaholic who never seemed to go home and who once, it is said, declared in all sinceritythat “the only safe ovary was the one in a bucket in front of you”.

The second is of the family man who once left his bed in the middle of the night to save the life of a child who had been treated for appendicitis but was left with a massive ovarian cyst apparently missed by other medics who treated her.