Safety fears over home addresses on web database

FEARS for personal safety and the security of their homes have prompted doctors to demand that the Medical Council remove home address details from its online database.

Speaking at the Irish Medical Organisation’s (IMO) annual conference in Killarney yesterday, trainee psychiatrist Dr Matthew Sadlier said doctors were “heavily over-represented” in the population of people who are stalked. “I myself had a number of potential stalkers,” said Dr Sadlier, who works at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin.

Dr Ken Egan, a GP in Ballindine, Co Mayo, said he was one of six doctors whose homes had been burgled since Christmas. He said gardaí believe a professional gang was carrying out the break-ins because the modus operandi was similar in all cases.