Dr Owen Dempsey

I have known Owen Dempsey for nearly 20 years, working along side him in the chest clinic, he has always been approachable, kind, caring and very understanding, he listen's to his patients and works well with his collegues. On a personel level, I was his patient, he took time to listen and was very interested taking a full history of my recent chest problems, explaining clearly and drawing on paper also, his student was also very polite to mysef, I have taken on board his recommendations and look forward to seeing him within the NHS Don't ever stop being you Owen, Kind regards Wendy Moir

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I had a telephone conversation with Dr Dempsey as an annual review of my condition and found him very easy to speak to, and attentive. Discussing future management was a joint decision and considerate of my wishes. Has a sense of humour too!

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I had a consult ion via vidio link, at the Westray surgery. from the start I felt very much at ease with dr. Dempsey. very much a people person, when asked how much I knew about my condition he gave me plenty time to answer, very professional , I got the feeling there was a kind and caring person behind it all

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My wife - Dr Dempsey's patient - is a retired nurse, and I am a retired consultant surgeon; we have a combined experience of the NHS and its staff approaching one hundred years. Dr Dempsey is a consultant in a million. He is undoubtedly exceptionally bright and his manner is without equal; he is always very pleasant and - while his abilities would easily take him to a high academic position - his knowledge, understanding, approach and total empathy, make him a practicing clinician with few (if any) equals. As we travel some distance to our consultations with him, he always arranges relevant investigations to be performed the same day (chest x-rays, respiratory function tests) so that they are available for his consultation; such 'joined-up' thinking is, sadly, not the norm in today's management-overload in the NHS. We have had face-to-face, telephone and video-conferencing with him over the past two years; in all he is the perfect gentleman, the brilliant physician and the consummate clinician. He also has a technologically adept web-site - easy to use for technophobes of my generation. I cannot think of a way he could improve his personal standards of medical care. Doubtless with more junior staff and support workers (nurses, radiographers, pathologists, radiologists, physiotherapists) and many fewer managers, his working life and clinical skills could be put to better use and his teaching skills used to educate a further generation of physicians in all specialties.

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