Overcoming : a memoir / Vicky Phelan with Naomi Linehan.
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- 9781529318708 (pbk.) :
- 920 PHE 23
- RC280.O8
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General | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | Biography | 920 PHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | R16653A0499 |
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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.
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