Overcoming : a memoir
Phelan, Vicky, 1974-2020
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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.
Main title:
Overcoming : a memoir / Vicky Phelan with Naomi Linehan.
Author:
Phelan, Vicky, 1974-, authorLinehan, Naomi, author
Imprint:
Dublin : Hachette Books Ireland, 2020.
Collation:
470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.
ISBN:
9781529318715 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
89072