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S
EAMUS
O’M
AHONY
is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Cork University Hospital. He is Associate Editor for Medical Humanities of the
Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
, and is a regular contributor to the
Dublin Review of Books
.

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