Doctor faces misconduct charges

A SENIOR doctor at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has been accused of professional misconduct over his alleged failure to properly diagnose the results of an MRI scan on a man who died a short time later.

Doctor faces misconduct charges

Dr John Hanson, 40, a consultant radiologist from Malahide, Co Dublin, appeared before the Irish Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Committee yesterday on nine charges of professional misconduct.

They relate to his care of a patient, Mark Haran who was admitted twice to Our Lady’s Hospital in the space of 10 days in early 2008 with complaints of prolonged headaches, dizziness and vertigo. He died as a result of brain damage at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin on April 4, 2008.

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