Over €2.25 million is to be spent on an MRI facility in Cavan General Hospital by the Health Service Executive. The HSE recently announced that it had awarded the contract for the project to Siemens Limited of Fitzwilliam Court in Dublin. It explained that the company has to provide the MRI unit and the building. [...]
The vast majority of decisions to involuntarily detain patients in psychiatric institutions are still being upheld by mental health tribunals. However, the latest figures for involuntary detentions that were revoked at tribunal hearings so far this year, peaked in October, when there were 25 revocations — more than any other month. The figures also show [...]
Strict visitor restrictions are being enforced with immediate effect at CUH/CUMH due to an increased incidence of patients with suspected norovirus – commonly known as the vomiting bug. Visiting times are restricted to 6.30pm – 7.30pm in both CUH & CUMH. One visitor is allowed per patient with strictly no children allowed to visit. Visitors [...]
Kay Gilderdale, 54, has been arrested on suspicion of killing their 31-year-old daughter, who had suffered from myalgic encephalopathy (ME) – or chronic fatigue syndrome – for 16 years, according to the Times Online.
The same team that demonstrated obesity and smoking spread in networks has shown that the more happy people you know – and the more happy people they know – the more likely you are yourself to be happy. And getting connected to happy people improves a person’s own happiness, they reported in the British Medical [...]
Médecins Sans Frontières has reported that one of its surgeons performed life-saving surgery on a teenage boy in the Congo using text message instructions from a colleague in London. According to MSF, Dr David Nott, while working in Rutshuru hospital, met a sixteen-year-old boy who had been caught in crossfire with his brother when an [...]
Some patients can get a little creative when it comes to describing their symptoms. According to ER Stories, a medical blog in the US, patients can save themselves a lot of time and pain – and psych consults – by not saying things such as: “Elephants are eating on my chest”; or, “I don’t feel [...]
MedSchool Hell offers “101 Things You Wish You Knew Before Starting Medical School.” Some good ones: 1. If I had known what it was going to be like, I would never have done it. 11. You won’t be a medical student on the surgery service. You’ll be the retractor bitch. 70. Don’t try to work [...]
Apparently mothers in the US do not care for the insinuation that their babies could in any way be worn as fashion accessories, and have lashed out at an ad by Motrin, a pain reliever. The backlash caused an immediate withdrawal of the ad, and a pretty good spoof, which is contained in the above [...]
A columnist in the New York Times writes that good manners are among the most overlooked of skills in doctors. He offers a list of six habits that help you make a good first impression: • Ask permission to enter the room; wait for an answer. • Introduce yourself; show your ID badge. • Shake [...]
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