Judge: Doctors’ letters say and mean nothing

Doctors need to get 600 points in their Leaving Certificate so they can write letters about patients that say nothing and mean nothing, a circuit court judge has said.

That was the view expressed by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin at Cork Circuit Appeals Court when a medical report was handed to him in respect of a man appealing a seven-month jail sentence for his “full on” verbal abuse of gardaí.

Stephen O’Donoghue, defending, handed in a doctor’s letter in the appeal by Stephen Wallace, aged 30, of 14 Deerpark Court, Friars Walk, Cork.