WATCH: CUH consultant named Cork Person of the Month

A consultant who wrote a book about death has been named Cork Person of the Month

Dr. Seamus O'Mahony has been announced as the November winner to mark his brave and thoughtful book ‘The Way We Die Now', which gives a rare glimpse into the world of death and dying from the vantage point of a medical doctor.

Dr. O'Mahony's book explains why he considers that modern acute hospitals make a good death increasingly difficult. Doctors working in general hospitals face very difficult decisions about frail, elderly people towards the end of life in terms of how far they should go with medical treatment and interventions.