The doctor who destroyed my life: ‘He was charming. He was complimentary. He referred to my illness as a fascinating mystery’

Shaking as she walks out of the Law Society headquarters on to a Belfast street, Danielle O’Neill grips a five-volume report about a doctor who she says destroyed her life.

I went from having a great job and about to start a family to someone on 35 pills a day and housebound “He was charming. He was complimentary. He referred to my illness as a ‘fascinating mystery’ and told me he would do all he could to get me well and back to work. Two hours earlier, inquiry chairman Brett Lockhart privately briefed her and other patients about “numerous failings” in a NHS system that enabled Watt – he can no longer practice medicine after removing himself from the medical register last year – to go unchecked.

“I can’t even read it, it’s just words swimming on a page,” O’Neill says quietly amid the noisy clicking of press photographers’ cameras and sound checks for TV interviews on the pavement beside us.“It was horrific listening to him detail the catalogue of errors that surrounded Michael Watt. But it’s such a significant day, as we finally feel vindicated and we know we didn’t do anything wrong.

White coat worship in the medical profession akin to the white robe worship we once had for the Catholic Church before we found out about the abuse by pedophile priests, bullying beatings terrorization in laundries +baby homes ?. HMcEntee

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