The next time you are asked to put up shelves for a friend or relative, explain to them that it is not quite as simple as that. First of all you have to get clearance and funding for the shelves. Then you must advertise, via online tender, for somebody to provide the shelving service, following [...]
I happened upon a little gem of a Dublin publication today at a local cafe – The Jupiter: “A monthly newsletter of ephemera published in Dublin using all the latest printing and typesetting technology.” In fact, this is low-fi, black-and-white, photocopied-at-home, guerilla publishing at its finest. It’s a single A3 page that is folded in [...]
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Mary Harney in Dublin Castle as she launched the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). After the launch she spoke to journalists for about 15 minutes, answering questions about the nursing strike and the latest opinion polls, among others. The question and answer session was nothing new, but [...]
GPs have been somewhat neglected lately, what with all the debate and controversy over consultants, and the media spotlight firmly focused on the nurses’s dispute and the general election. When it does turn to doctors it’s generally concentrated on the Irish Medical Organisation or the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA), and their row over the [...]
Ruyan, the Chinese maker of the E-Cigarette, is expanding its market into the US and Europe, and its sales are expected to double in 2007. The devices are battery-powered, cigarette-shaped devices that deliver doses of nicotine when inhaled. They will soon glow when the “smoker” inhales, and they already emit a vapour. The difference between [...]
Fr Jack Hackett will be the inspiration for the next Minister for Health, no matter who he or she is. You’ll see why in a minute. First of all, read the health sections of the election manifestos of the six main political parties. If you’re not cynical beforehand, you will be afterwards. The two government [...]
Did you know that an estimated 7,000 Americans a year die as a result of doctors’ bad handwriting? (Harper’s, April 2007). Or that the happiness boost that men gain from a firstborn son is 75 per cent larger than from a firstborn daughter, or that second and third children don’t add to the happiness of [...]
Rock the Vote? Perhaps the campaign should be called Mock the Vote, since I can’t imagine that anyone finds credibility, or an incentive to vote, in watching the humiliating and hilarious attempts of our general election candidates to get ‘down with the kids’. These attempts include: Enda Kenny’s revelation to Hot Press that Marilyn Monroe [...]
What I predict or think will happen in this election doesn’t really matter. But who cares? Speculating about the success or failure of Dáil Éireann wannabes is fun – especially when they’re docs! And there’s 10 of them running in this election, so here goes. First, and I can’t get this wrong surely, former Monaghan [...]
Recent international attention on the effects of chemotherapy on memory loss, lack of concentration, language deficits and the inability to do more than one task at a time has focused on hundreds of posts (self-effacing and hilarious at times) by women on a breast cancer website about so-called “chemo fog“. It’s been covered by the [...]
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