Overcoming :
Phelan, Vicky,
Overcoming : a memoir / Vicky Phelan with Naomi Linehan. - Dublin : Hachette Books Ireland, 2019. - 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
When Vicky Phelan delivered an emotionally charged statement from the steps of the Four Courts in April 2018 - having refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement in the settlement of her action against the HSE - she unearthed the medical and political scandal of our times. It would emerge that, like Vicky, 220 other women who were diagnosed with cervical cancer were not informed that a clinical audit - carried out by the national screen programme CervicalCheck - had revised their earlier, negative smear tests. Their cancers could possibly have been preventable. Here Vicky shares her remarkable personal story, from a life-threatening accident in early adulthood through to motherhood, a battle with depression, her devastating later discovery that her cancer had returned in shocking circumstances - and the ensuing detective-like scrutiny of events that led the charge for her legal action.
9781529318708 (pbk.) : £14.99 £14.99
Phelan, Vicky--Health.
Ovaries--Cancer--Patients.
Ovaries--Cancer--Diagnosis.
Medical errors--Prevention.
Biography.
Health and Wellbeing.
RC280.O8
920 PHE
Overcoming : a memoir / Vicky Phelan with Naomi Linehan. - Dublin : Hachette Books Ireland, 2019. - 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
When Vicky Phelan delivered an emotionally charged statement from the steps of the Four Courts in April 2018 - having refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement in the settlement of her action against the HSE - she unearthed the medical and political scandal of our times. It would emerge that, like Vicky, 220 other women who were diagnosed with cervical cancer were not informed that a clinical audit - carried out by the national screen programme CervicalCheck - had revised their earlier, negative smear tests. Their cancers could possibly have been preventable. Here Vicky shares her remarkable personal story, from a life-threatening accident in early adulthood through to motherhood, a battle with depression, her devastating later discovery that her cancer had returned in shocking circumstances - and the ensuing detective-like scrutiny of events that led the charge for her legal action.
9781529318708 (pbk.) : £14.99 £14.99
Phelan, Vicky--Health.
Ovaries--Cancer--Patients.
Ovaries--Cancer--Diagnosis.
Medical errors--Prevention.
Biography.
Health and Wellbeing.
RC280.O8
920 PHE