Whistleblower (2008)

Genre

drama film

Country

Ireland

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A midwife at an Irish hospital discovers that a doctor has been performing an alarming number of unnecessary surgeries on his patients. As she tries to report what she has found, she faces resistance and obstacles from those in power.

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What happens

Whistleblower is a two-part Irish television IFTA-winning fact-based drama, broadcast on RTÉ One for two consecutive nights in 2008, which focuses on the Michael Neary scandal that first erupted in the 1990s. Neary, a retired Irish consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, gained notoriety when it was discovered that he had performed what was considered an inordinate number of caesarian hysterectomies during his time at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth. Whistleblower follows the obstacles encountered by a midwife Louise (Emma Stansfield) as she blows the whistle on Neary (Stanley Townsend)'s irregular obstetric practices. The series was written by Rob Heyland, directed by Dermot Boyd, produced by Siobhán Bourke and Peter Norris and researched by Sheila Ahern. The first episode, broadcast at 21:30 on 31 August 2008, drew in a third of the available audience across all platforms. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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