I was probably quite tired, surgeon tells inquiry

A consultant surgeon who incorrectly described a proposed mouth operation on a toddler’s hospital records yesterday told a medical inquiry he was probably quite tired and put it down to human error.

I was probably quite tired, surgeon tells inquiry

The two-year-old ended up having two operations to her mouth on the same day when the wrong procedure was carried out first at Our Lady’s Children Hospital, Crumlin, in Apr 2010.

Yesterday her paediatric consultant, Prof Martin Corbally, told a Medical Council inquiry he had been on call for five nights in the week before he met the little girl, known as Patient X.

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