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Nurse Wins Key Ruling on Mammogram Delay | Cork News
A Tipperary nurse wins a major High Court victory against the HSE, after a judge ruled that the delay in diagnosing her breast cancer — stemming from misinterpreted mammograms — breached professional duty. Though her 2022 scan was wrongly labeled benign, the court found this failure to trigger a recall was unacceptable, even if the 2020 scan didn’t meet intervention thresholds at the time. McSweeney, who later underwent mastectomy and treatment, emphasized the case isn’t about hindsight — it’s about whether radiologists met standards when interpreting subtle, ambiguous findings. The ruling…
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