‘More is missed by not looking, than not knowing’

  Dr Pat McHugh, 1943-2015: An Appreciation   Patrick Joseph McHugh followed his father, Dr John Francis McHugh (General Practitioner), into medicine at University College, Galway, as it was then called, in 1967. Pat briefly practised as a GP for a year in Ballindine, Co Mayo, but his abiding passion was hospital medicine. He worked in the Regional Hospital and Merlin Park Hospitals Galway for a number of years working mostly with Dr Brendan Duffy in Merlin Park, Galway, and he took up the post of Consultant Physician in Roscommon in 1977 – a post which saw him practise in the…