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THE man who administered laser treatment to terminally ill cancer pa- tients at the East Clinic in Killaloe had been struck of the medical regis- ter in the United States, a court heard last week.
Dr Bull Porter lied on his CV for the job with Frieda and Pascal Car- mody, saying that he had worked in the Mater Hospital in Dublin, when
he hadn’t.
But neither of the Carmody’s was aware of this, the Circuit Court sit- ting in Ennis heard last week.
Porter – who has now left the juris- diction – was also struck off in Cali- fornia for not paying alimony and abandoning a patient and was the subject of a Garda investigation into his involvement in advance cosmetic surgery in Cork. The jury was hear- ing evidence from statements made
by Pascal Carmody during inter- views with gardai. The court heard that a month after he joined the East Clinic, Dr Frieda Keane and Carmo- dy wrote to him, pressing him to reg- ister with the Irish Medical Council.
He replied to her that he had dis- cussed the matter with Pascal Car- mody and, as he would be practising in the capacity of a technician ad- ministering light therapy and not as a medical doctor, there would be no
need for him to register.
Carmody told gardai in an inter- view that neither he nor his wife were aware of Dr Porter’s back- eround. When he came for interview at the clinic he presented a CV and said that he had recently been in- terviewed for the post of opthalmic consultant at the University Hospital in Cork. Carmody told gardai that his wife had called one of the people who sat on the interview panel and
was told that they would not be offer- ing Dr Porter the post but that he had been an excellent candidate.
Carmody told gardai that they were both satisfied that such an eminent body as CUH would have run checks on an interviewee’s background.
The court also heard from former nursing and administration staff at the East Clinic that they found it a “happy” place to work with a good atmosphere.