Even though doctors in the US who use electronic patient records say it has huge benefits for patients, less than one in five have switched from paper, according to a new study published online by the New England Journal of Medicine. It’s been reported by the New York Times: Bringing patient records into the computer [...]
When you dream, your brain retrieves images from the neocortex, not the hippocampus, a new study involving amnesiacs and the computer game Tetris has found. “When the brain is filing away the memories it needs to keep, it has to go through a series of steps, and dreaming is a manifestation of one crucial step,” [...]
According to my computer’s built-in dictionary (I was seeking synonyms for idiocy to moderate an attack on the competency of some hospital managers), “a seventeenth-century antidote to idiocy was to rub the forehead with beaver testicles.” I subsequently discovered that beaver testicles had an illustrious role in the history of medicine. In this entry, it [...]
Health Minister Mary Harney today said she ‘could not understand’ why a small number of hospitals are not referring sufficient patients to the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF), leaving patients waiting needlessly longer than 12 months for surgery. The hospitals with most long waiters are Letterkenny, Sligo, Tallaght, Tullamore and Cork University Hospital. Hospitals which [...]
A Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist in Crumlin has been elected president of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association. Dr Paul Oslizlok was elected this weekend. Dr Margo Wrigley, Consultant Psychiatrist, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, and Dr John O’Dea, Consultant Anaesthetist, Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick, have been elected Vice-Presidents. Dr Donal Murray, Consultant Physician, Sligo General Hospital, is [...]
Here is the CUH response to the Irish Examiner story in full: Cork University Hospital Refutes Allegations In Staff Email Leaked To Media Cork University Hospital has categorically refuted the allegations made in a news item published on the front page of today’s (23rd June 2008) Irish Examiner regarding a leaked email from a staff [...]
The HSE probably won’t try to spin its way out of the horror story that emerged from Cork University Hospital in today’s Irish Examiner. But where the HSE cannot fight spin wars, it wages wars of attrition. Here’s the story (which has been subsequently “categorically refuted” by CUH: A 70-year-old woman with a “devastating injury [...]
You may remember the blog earlier this month dealing with a man who came back to life just before doctors were going to remove his organs for transplantation. This story is equally as shocking. A premature baby girl declared stillborn by doctors in Mumbai began to make noises several hours after birth. Some of the [...]
In the first article of a new Irish Medical Times series on communication in medicine, Rory Hafford, Senior Consultant with Carr Communications, looks at the best preparation for the medical interview. Doctors are arguably the most highly-trained and best prepared professionals on the planet! They go through years of medical studies, long hours of learning [...]
Why do women remain interested in uncommitted sexual relationships in countries where there is a high risk of contracting HIV/AIDS? It has something to do with the high rate of nonsexual diseases, and evolution, according to a study in Evolutionary Psychology. The author of the study, Nigel Barber, explains this paradoxical pattern using evolutionary theory. [...]
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