{"id":80779,"date":"2025-09-23T10:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/80779\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:28:15","slug":"dr-harry-barry-he-smashed-my-teeth-ive-had-four-operations-after-the-last-one-the-doctor-said-there-is-nothing-more-i-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/80779\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Harry Barry: \u2018He smashed my teeth. I\u2019ve had four operations. After the last one the doctor said, there is nothing more I can do\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nReleasing his memoir, the GP and campaigner recalls being bullied, and his time in Tanzania\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Author Harry Barry talks about his experiences as a GP. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b3628095-9654-4787-a85b-4958784b70a4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Author Harry Barry talks about his experiences as a GP. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s a long way from Holles Street to the African Bush. But when Dr \u00adHarry Barry\u2019s wife, Brenda, began to go into labour with their second child in rural Tanzania, the experience gained as a young medic in the Irish maternity hospital stood to him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThe child wasn\u2019t due until February of the following year but there were no scans or anything. Just before Christmas she went into labour,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Releasing his memoir, the GP and campaigner recalls being bullied, and his time in Tanzania Author Harry Barry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[30805,18,135,475,474,19,17,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-80779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-donal-lynch","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}