A shortish blog today. I was not going to write about the disgraceful Kevin Myers and his polemic in today’s Irish Independent, which is a basically rant against Muslims and his desire to stop them entering Ireland, but it disturbed me so much that I changed my mind. Myers goes to the extent of linking [...]
If the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive (HSE) were dogs, the former would be a lumbering family canine that likes to be petted while the latter would be the yippy wee puppy that gets its nose rubbed in the pile of poo – regardless of whether or not it was responsible for [...]
One of the three Dublin maternity hospitals will soon find out if it is joining the new National Paediatric Hospital on the Mater Hospital site in Dublin, with recommendations from the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) ongoing review into maternity services expected to recommend a tri-location plan in Autumn. A spokesperson for the HSE said the [...]
There is still an amazing amount of misconception in this country about emergency contraception, STDs and sexual health generally. A lot of people still think chlamydia is caused by promiscuity, or bad judgement. Many people think emergency contraception is one step away from abortion, and the fact more and more women are accessing it is [...]
Prof Brendan Drumm A study of a new incentive scheme by Medicare in the US has shown that millions can be saved by keeping patients out of hospitals. One of the ways this was accomplished was to establish a system of incentives and then let doctors come up with the ideas. One of the unique [...]
Dr Richard Carmona An interesting story caught my eye the other day on claims by the 17th surgeon general of the US – now retired – that he was gagged for political reasons on a range of issues. Now of course accusations of political interference by the current US administration are hardly rare, nor are [...]
Monty Python’s The Holy Grail is a bit like the Health Service Executive‘s primary care teams. Arthur, King of the Britons, and his Knights of the Round Table travel through Britain looking for the Holy Grail. The only problem is they don’t actually have horses, instead they pretend to be riding along on steeds while [...]
Three cystic fibrosis patients spent three days in the emergency department at St Vincent’s Hospital during a June outbreak of the winter vomiting bug, the chief executive of the Cystic Fibrosis Association (CFA) told Irish Medical Times. Mr Godfrey Fletcher said three CF patients were held in the ED of St Vincent’s during the week [...]
Just when you thought it was safe to open a newspaper after the election and not see some Irish politician making a complete gobeen out of himself, our beloved Taoiseach manages to put his foot in it. We no longer have the mental health musings of former minister-for-state Tim O’Malley to keep us going. Remember? [...]
Yawning isn’t rude. It’s all about surival, new research in Evolutionary Psychology suggests. Also, it’s not about oxygen, but cooling the brain. According to the BBC: The common wisdom is that people yawn because they need oxygen, but the researchers at the University of Albany in New York said their experiments showed that raising or [...]
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