The breast surgeon who developed breast cancer

Dr Liz O’Riordan, Consultant Breast Surgeon, spoke to June Shannon about her own recent unique experience of being a both a doctor and a patient in her own specialty, ahead of a talk at the RCPI’s St Luke’s Symposium “This doctor just knew me as ‘Liz’, which was exactly what I needed. Before she put the probe on the lump, she asked me if I wanted to see. I said yes, because everything was going to be fine. We both looked, and suddenly I knew my life would never be the same again...” “I bumped into my consultant in the…