Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her children, may not be responsible for his actions, his lawyer said. Fritzl’s lawyer said he will undergo a battery of psychological and psychiatric tests that may help mitigate the severity of his confessed crimes. “We’d need to see [...]
Patients will suffer as a result of major cutbacks announced by Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown, which include month-long closures of medical and surgical wards this summer and a ban on repairing non-essential equipment, Fine Gael Dublin West TD Leo Varadkar said last week. The alleged cutbacks include: * Closure of a surgical ward for one [...]
Laois-Offaly TD Charles Flanagan has told Irish Medical Times there is worry in Laois that Portlaoise Hospital may suffer the same fate as Monaghan Hospital with a gradual downgrade of services in favour of Tullamore Hospital, which is the political base of the new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Deputy Flanagan told Irish Medical Times that hospital [...]
More people are smoking today than in 2002, according to the Survey of Lifestyle, Attitudes and Nutrition (SLÁN) in Ireland, published by the Department of Health (where did they get the fada?). This is exactly the opposite of what you might expect after the introduction of a smoking ban, and after raising the price of [...]
The 12-year sentence handed down on Richard Finn, the 20-year-old man who repeatedly raped a woman – while filming her with his mobile phone – in the grounds of a church, has once again got everyone asking if rapists in Ireland are inadequately punished. Mr Justice Carney took off three years (he said the appropriate [...]
Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse blood transfusions? It’s part of their religious beliefs. That answer mustn’t be clear enough for the High Court, which (again) has ruled that doctors, this time at Cork University Hospital, may give a life-saving blood transfusion to premature, severely anaemic twins whose parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses. The 32-year-old mother of [...]
A CT scanner is to be bought for the Mater Hospital’s accident and emergency department. The hospital recently invited interested parties to tender to supply the equipment. However, the procedure to award the contract to the winning party will not even begin until the end of July this year.
Bon Secours Hospital Dublin has been awarded Re-Accreditation by Joint Commission International (JCI) until 2011, following a recent in-depth inspection by a JCI Survey Team. Bon Secours Hospital, Dublin was the first hospital in Ireland to obtain Accreditation by Joint Commission International (JCI) in 2002. It was also one of the earliest worldwide to achieve [...]
Doctors in the UK have implanted breakthrough “bionic eyes” in two patients at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. Soon, patients with artificial eyes, who have been blind for decades, could be recognizing faces, according to the Times. The first thing I thought of while reading this was Annie Dillard’s legendary essay, “Seeing” (from Pilgrim at [...]
A hypnotist in Britain has hypnotised himself and undergone an operation without any other anaesthetic, according to the BBC. Could this be the start of a trend that results in long lines of anaesthetists queueing up to claim the dole, while hypnotists stride into their operating theatres?
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