Here’s a doctor joke from Profession Jokes. It’s not very good: A man went to see his doctor because he was suffering from a miserable cold. His doctor prescribed some pills, but they didn’t help. On his next visit the doctor gave him a shot, but that didn’t do any good. On his third visit [...]
A Queens University scientist is asking thieves to return two laptops stolen from his office. They contain almost two years worth of research into the Respiratory Synsytial Virus (RSV), which is a potentially fatal illness in babies. Since it’s highly unlikely the thieves will return the laptops in the interest of science, this story really [...]
Preparations are continuing for the construction of a new 20-bed in-patient psychiatric facility for children and adolescents in Galway. The HSE is now looking for a company or companies to build the facility at Merlin Park Hospital in the city. The centre will include a children’s in-patient unit, an adolescent in-patient unit, a therapies unit [...]
A small sum of money listed in the CSO’s Irish Merchandise trade figures for 2006 & 2007 may be nothing at all, but to me it seems right out of the X-Files. According to the CSO’s own figures, Ireland imported €1,000 of manufactured metals and €6,000 of footwear in 2006 from the country of Bouvet [...]
The Guardian wonders if the discovery that Radovan Karadzic re-invented himself as a altmed healer might be a good time to discredit the whole industry. And how would you like to be the guy whose wife and daughters received massages from an alleged war criminal?
Rogue employees hoping to pull a sickie are logging on to a website, www.doctorsnotestore.com, which promises to deliver “authentic looking doctors sick certificates, written on official stamped notepaper, within 24 hours, for 29.99 euro.” The Limerick Post reports that the website even claims to include “real Limerick doctors names and real Irish medical facility names,” [...]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) wants to hire an agency to recruit medical consultants worldwide, it has been revealed. The HSE invited recruitment agencies to submit tenders for the contract. The Executive said that the process of recruiting internationally will go on for two years, however little other information has been revealed about the proposal. [...]
Alternative medicine was dealt a credibility blow when the second-most important defendant to face trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) turned out to have practised in a private clinic for the last decade or so.
On his deathbed, Oscar Wilde famously remarked, apropos the wallpaper in his Parisian hovel: “One of us has to go.” Modern medicine takes the view that Oscar Wilde died of an ear infection and meningitis and not the classic disease of the decadents that has always seemed a suitably sensational way of rounding off a [...]
The Adelaide Hospital Society lost €1.86 million in net assets in 2007, according to the charity’s latest financial statements, which were presented to the Companies Registration Office recently. However, the Society, which provides funds for Tallaght Hospital, still had net assets of €19.23 million at the end of last year. At the beginning of 2007, [...]
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