Mick Clifford: Doctor living under a cloud for 10 years while Margiotta sick note case drags on

Questions of proportionality surround the cases facing Tony and Lynn Margiotta

Tony Margiotta moved from general practice to a public health role. He now works for the HSE. Picture: Collins Courts

Tony Margiotta is in his tenth year living under a cloud. 

The medical doctor was the subject of a complaint that has, for some reason, dragged on through all those years. He has been told that he will be the subject of a fitness to practise hearing by the Medical Council. He has not been told when any such hearing will take place.