Crumlin Children's Hospital - a very serious danger within:

Crumlin Children's Hospital - a very serious danger within:

Dr Jacques Noel. [MCRN 14671] Lazy - negligent - criminal and falsifying medical records etc:

# Because of Dr Noel's laziness I'm left crippled for life, in constant pain and virtually housebound after being diagnosed with degenerative spinal disease - due to my seriously degenerating mobility there is talk that I should consider a wheelchair as an aid. This is totally unacceptable as it would mean me losing my home.

Dr Noel will go into denial and falsify and fabricate etc to save his own skin at the life changing expense of a vulnerable patient, in my case, a pensioner with a medical card and, no matter that the official records support my claims, he will be protected and can rely on, successfully so far, colleagues and authorities to cover-up for him, even when it's criminal - meaning that those turning a blind eye are approving of such conduct and will do so in the future.

It's not just discreditable people like Dr J. Noel who destroy our health service and put patients in danger, but also the people / establishments who cover-up for them and employ them.

This doctor, who I saw at Tallaght Hospital, is a consultant at Crumlin Children's Hospital and is a real and serious danger to patients.

The evidence that completely supports my allegations is impeccable 'best evidence' as it's their own documentation - Tallaght Hospital, Dr J. Noel.

[1] Medical records etc - lazy and criminal:

Documentation proves that Dr Noel knew for nearly a year that I'd not received urgently required treatment yet he did not bother to do anything to rectify, he was just too lazy. He was so lazy he did not even bother to make use of, for example, a secretary to rectify. That's criminal negligence.

I did inform the hospital's CEO Ms Hardiman regarding this but she ignored me.

Dr Noel resorted to falsification on more than one occasion to cover himself.

Their original documentation supports my version of events - later they started to 'produce' documentation not only contradicting my version but contradicting their own original documents.

An address at the top of one of the falsifications reads -

"Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12. 01-4096100"

At my only consultation with Dr J. Noel he offered me treatment ASAP depending on when a bed became available - he confirmed this to my G.P. and confirmed it in his letter written at the consultation and the hospital records show that on the day of the consultation he sent an internal request that I be booked in ASAP for treatment - documentation shows that the bookings were never made.

Later he contradicted this by falsifying records, including medical records to claim that he had offered me immediate treatment and that I refused treatment.

If I had refused treatment I would be completely responsible for my current crippled state but the problem for the establishment is that I obtained their records which clearly show them changing their 'story' so as to pass the blame onto me.

Dr Noel also claimed to have told my G.P. that he had offered me immediate treatment and that I refused. My G.P. rejects this confirming all she was told by Dr Noel was that he offered me treatment ASAP depending on when a bed became available, as per his letter.

Clearly he resorted to criminal activity to try to cover-up his laziness and negligence.

3rd party proof that the Medical Council altered my complaint to cover for Dr Noel:

Dr Noel and the hospital can point to the fact that my complaint against him was dismissed by the Medical Council, something I found impossible give the documentary evidence that proved he was being untruthful.

Later from internal documents I discovered that the Medical Council had mis-described my complaint by attributing an allegation to me which I'd never made, but it effectively destroyed my complaint as such an allegation was completely false thereby clearing Dr Noel.

After a long arduous fight, during which their solicitor wrote to me insisting I'd made the allegation, a legally binding decision which only the High Court could set aside [case 120243] was made by the Freedom of Information Commissioner. In this the Medical Council were forced to acknowledge that they had incorrectly described my complaint, that I'd never made any such allegation, that evidence they had claimed they had to support their claim did not exist. In fact they never had any reason to believe I had made such an allegation.

Despite this the Medical Council stand by their decision to clear Dr Noel despite his and their falsehoods - proving beyond any doubt that their actions were deliberate.

Crumlin Children's Hospital is now fully aware of the danger they put their patients in by employing Dr Noel who is devoid of ethics and seemingly untouchable.

This was not the only proven falsification and misrepresentation that Dr Noel indulged in, for example -

[2] The phone call:

As Dr Noel had requested I made the agreed phone call to Ms Irene Fortune [main orthopaedic secretary] at Tallaght Hospital's Ormsby Ward and I taped the call. I spoke to the ward clerk who said Irene was not in that day. The clerk took my name, my phone number and Dr Jacque Noel as a further contact and would get Ms Fortune to contact me - I was never contacted and complained.

In an internal hospital letter, Dr Noel explained that Ms Fortune had not contacted me because she was on sick leave with a fractured foot.

Despite this Dr Noel was to yet again indulge in fabrication to pass the blame onto me.

He later wrote to third parties claiming I had not made the call and supported his false claim with a statement from Ms Fortune, who fully identified me and said that "I had no contact with him what so ever".

Neither Dr Noel nor Ms Fortune mentions the fact that she was to have contacted me but had not done so because she was off sick, the intention is very clear.

# The ward clerk who I spoke to has never denied taking my call.

So just like [1] above the truth of their own records can be denied to save Dr Noel's skin - the implications are obvious, he is of more value to society than a pensioner who he has crippled - what value a vulnerable child if it comes to Dr Noel's skin?

In fact Tallaght Hospital is so bad it was publicly branded by a coroner as a dangerous place, saying that it "sounds like a very dangerous place to be for anybody, let alone a sick patient”.

# I have provided [through pacs@olchc.ie] Ms Helen Shortt, Chief Executive of Crumlin Children's Hospital with the link to this article in order to ensure that it's a matter of record that Ms Shortt is fully aware the danger Dr Noel's poses to patients.