Surgeon failed to give report on boy’s crash death

A SURGEON, who has agreed to be censured by the Medical Council for failing to provide a medical report for a teenage road traffic victim, said his patients were his primary concern, not the interests of the legal profession.

John Flynn, 69, who works as a locum at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe, Co Galway, gave a sworn undertaking at a fitness to practice inquiry yesterday to meet all requests for such reports in the future.

Mr Flynn, who treated the 14-year-old boy following the crash on October 30, 2003, declined repeated requests between 2005 and 2008 for a medical report needed for a legal action following the incident.