Patients complain most over diagnosis

Preliminary data from the Medical Council’s forthcoming second ‘Medical Workforce Intelligence Report’ to be published this month shows that 10 per cent of doctors aged 25-29 years chose to leave the medical register in 2013. Reflecting on the first year of his Council’s five-year term, President Prof Freddie Wood said the impact of the departure of young doctors from the medical register was emphasised by the Council, which commenced its tenure in June 2013. “The Annual Report highlights its work in quality-assuring medical education at undergraduate, intern and postgraduate level. Newly qualified doctors are meanwhile leaving Ireland in high numbers,” he…