February 10, 2012

The stuff dreams are made of

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With a little help from NASA, Dr Garrett FitzGerald discovered he was able, on reflection, to improve on one of Flann O’Brien’s greatest experiments.

Defenders of the State

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Dr Ruairi Hanley is passionately opposed to any potential moves to pardon the Irish army deserters who went to fight for the British in World War II.

First-hand account of the treatment of a Bahrain doctor

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Dear Editor, My name is Dr Bassim Dhaif FRCSI, FRCS (Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Salmaniya Medical Complex, Bahrain, Associate Professor, College Of Medicine, Arabian Gulf University, Past Chairman, Department Of Orthopaedics, Past President, Bahrain Orthopaedic Association, Past President, Bahrain Sports Medicine Association. I am married. I have four children; the eldest is 19, the youngest [...]

RTÉ gives ‘long-play’ records a bad name

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Dear Editor, As I sit in my office on a quiet morning in general practice, I can hear strains of Mr Tambourine Man gently wafting in from the radio speakers in the waiting room next door. This is followed by Pat Kenny talking about something utterly predictable, elucidating an array of opinions on the usual [...]

Continued Irish support is very much appreciated

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Dear Editor, I would like to thank Dr Ruairi Hanley very much for the support he and people like Prof Damian McCormack and others in Ireland are expressing locally and internationally on Bahrain (Irish Medical Times, January 27, 2012, http://bit.ly/A2qbzd). I am very pleased with Dr Hanley’s enthusiasm, which unfortunately some of our colleagues in [...]

Ode to a ticker that isn’t dickie — yet

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I didn’t suspect I had a dickie ticker, If  I did, I may have gone to A&E quicker, The pain came on slowly, not all of a sudden, So, thankfully, I’d time to finish the black and white puddin’.

What’s so funny…

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By Pat Kelly. Psychologists have reignited the debate over what actually makes something amusing and have come up with a formula to explain it.

Eat, drink and be merry?

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By Pat Kelly. Researchers have claimed that the old ‘fat people are more jolly’ hypothesis may be at least partly true — at least when it comes to women.

Managing hypertension in diabetic patients

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Prof Eoin O’Brien looks at the benefits of aliskiren in the treatment of hypertension but says it should not be prescribed with ACE inhibitors or ARBs in diabetic patients.

Does size really matter in modern medical practice?

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Dr Muiris Houston looks at the implications of new research, which examined whether physician body weight is a barrier to care in overweight and obesity.

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