TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phelan,Vicky
TI  - Overcoming: a memoir 
SN  - 9781529318708 (pbk.) :
AV  - RC280.O8 
U1  - 920 PHE 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Dublin
PB  - Hachette Books Ireland
KW  - Phelan, Vicky
KW  - Ovaries
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - Diagnosis
KW  - Medical errors
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Biography
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
N2  - 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
ER  -