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Sat 04 Apr 2007Doctors and nurses: a game of high stakesAs nurses escalate their industrial action and consultant doctors dispute the HSE's proposed contracts, Kathy Sheridanexamines their casesSpin and counter spin. The HSE talked of "near-misses" for patients in the nurses' work stoppages and said we were only hours from a serious incident. The nurses insisted there were no such thing and anyway, if there were, it was all the fault of the Minister for Health, Mary Harney.