Green Ink thinks this is what cancer looks like. Sorry GI I have to disagree. I saw what cancer looks like on RTE news this evening. Joan Kennedy, one of the nine women who was misdiagnosed in Port Laoise Hospital was interviewed by Ciaran Mullooly. (Interview link can be found on this page.)

Joan is 78 and two weeks ago she had her breast removed 6 months after receiving the all clear. She was angry and so were the members of her family. There is huge anger in the Midlands about the treatment of these women, the neglect during the misdiagnosis and the neglect during the treatment that they are now receiving and hearing her daughter wonder what they in Dublin’ are doing, I have to wonder myself. What are the HSE doing? Complete incompetence by a major organisation – where is the crisis management? All those consultants surrounding Brendan Drumm? Their communications strategy is chaos, many of the women who had their mammogram’s reviewed went through enough already and now they have to wait to see if they are one of the women to have a surgical review of ultrasounds etc. I can’t blame Mary Harney – yet. But I don’t know if I was one of the women involved would I feel so charitable. And the only way things are going to get done on this is if politics is played with it…because at the moment silence is leading to that shower of useless feckers playing with women’s lives and emotions. Harney needs to get in there – stop saying it’s the HSE managing it and get tough – she has the support of the public in dealing with the consultants – many non PD voters think she is on the right track there. Now she needs to shout stop before she is.