The opinion poll in today’s Irish Times is bad news for Bertie Ahern and suggests he won’t be forming the next Government. So if there is a Fine Gael-Labour coalition in power who will be the next Minister for Health? If Fine Gael want the portfolio, Wexford GP Liam Twomey would seem an obvious candidate. [...]
New figures from a human rights organisation in Mexico have revealed that about 1,500 of the 200,000 women who have illegal backstreet abortions there every year die from unhygienic and botched operations. This horrible fact was used by such organisations, as well as pro-choice and women’s rights groups, to lobby for legalised abortion in Mexico [...]
Go on! Blame the GPs! I dare you! It has recently been intimated, in the nurses’ and consultants’ disputes, that both of these groups are looking for too much money. Hardly an original line of attack on the part of health management, is it? So, the Health Service Executive, the Department of Health, the Minister [...]
The apparent murder/suicide in Wexford over the weekend which saw the deaths of a husband, wife and their two small daughters leaves so many questions unanswered. I don’t mean questions as to why a man would apparently take the lives of the ones he loves the most in the world before ending his own existence. [...]
Senior IHCA negotiator Michael O’Keefe provided one of the few coherent public arguments for the rejection of the new consultant contract when he appeared on RTE television’s Questions and Answers tonight. O’Keefe is one of the most articulate spokesmen in the association and should be wheeled out more often to face the cameras. He didn’t [...]
The consultants haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory in handling their media relations in the dispute over the new contract. The Irish Hospital Consultants Association are disputing the fact that one of their members ever used the phrase “mickey mouse” in relation to the E200,000 plus on offer for new consultant posts, but the damage [...]
Over 450 consultants attended the Irish Hospital Consultant Association‘s (IHCA) EGM in Dublin, and judging by the steady applause behind closed doors, and the buoyant mood of members who filed out those doors, they believe what they are saying. The big question is: does anybody else? The IHCA passed three key motions today: consultants have [...]
So industrial action by the Irish Nurses Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses Association is affecting patients, is it? After three days of nurses stopping work, the HSE informed us that about 70 patients’ procedures (operations to you and me) had been cancelled and rescheduled as a result. Outpatient clinics and hospital work were also behind [...]
If you thought there was no answer to the question “How much would I get for my uterus?” you were wrong. The answer is: “How old are you, how many children have you had and were you planning on having any more?” Unless of course you ask the Medical Missionaries of Mary, who are being [...]
The question that must be asked when reading the front page of today’s Irish Independent, Ireland’s largest selling daily newspaper, is: Will doctors never learn? This would then be quickly followed by: Will someone ever tell them to keep their mouths shut about the amounts of money they earn? And then the idea that: If [...]
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