Irene Scheimberg says she is prepared to challenge injustice whenever it arises (Image: TwentTwenty)
In 1976 Irene Scheimberg fled Argentina when the military regime began arresting and killing her friends, experiences that have made her extra sensitive to injustice. Today, as a paediatric pathologist in the UK, she is prepared to challenge it whenever it arises, whether it be shaken baby syndrome or the controversy over retained organs at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s hospital, she tells Sue Armstrong
What kind of family did you grow up in?
My grandfather was a civil rights lawyer and both my parents are doctors.…
