A blog associated with the NYU School of Medicine is worth some free time, if you can spare it: Literature, Arts & Medicine. From an entry on the literature written by nurses: …As I see more and more narrative medicine courses offered to medical students, I wonder why many nursing programs still fail to utilize [...]
The HSE has funded 151 people to travel outside the State to be assessed for a €35,000 procedure, despite the fact that it is available here in Ireland. More than 30 patients per year continue to travel overseas for the operation — Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) — carried out on patients with Parkinson’s and other [...]
A leading Irish obesity clinic is seeing an increasing number of patients who have had ‘quick-fix’ weight-loss surgery performed elsewhere and end up suffering complications. Consultant Endocrinologist Dr Donal O’Shea of St Columcille’s Hospital in Loughlinstown told Irish Medical Times that a lot of private hospitals did not put in place the necessary psychological screening [...]
A new website, Lose the Blues has been launched at University College Cork (UCC) aimed at students experiencing depressive symptoms. The website is designed specifically for 18- to 24-year-olds who may be experiencing “low mood to cope with their experiences.” As well as providing information on depression and links to national and international support services, [...]
No hospital achieved a performance rating of ‘very good’ in the latest HSE HealthStat report. Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda was the only hospital to get a rating of ‘unsatisfactory, requiring urgent attention’. The other 28 hospitals in the ongoing survey achieved overall ratings of average, with room for improvement in the October [...]
Take a short psychological test (four questions) and find out what font best portrays your personality, then get a history of that font. You will be prompted for a password after you enter your name. The password is: character (You will need to turn your sound on.) Enjoy.
Resource allocation in the health service is dysfunctional, according the former director of the Adelaide Society and lecturer in public health at Trinity College. Dr Fergus O’Ferrall said: “Our two-tier health system is a scandal and has led to many unnecessary deaths.” He has called on the Expert Group on Resource Allocation in the Health [...]
From an Irish Heart Foundation press release on a 10K run for charity (and possibly a date) on February 13: Join Cupid’s Dash 10k Fun Run in aid of the Irish Heart Foundation which is taking place in Dublin’s Phoenix Park on Saturday, 13th February. With less than four weeks to go, walkers and runners [...]
Children with an egg allergy are being referred to hospital for the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine unnecessarily and are placing an extra burden on services, according to a study carried out in Cork. The research, published in the latest edition of the Irish Medical Journal, said that egg allergy was often incorrectly thought [...]
Almost half of those waiting more than four weeks for urgent colonoscopies are on a waiting list at Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown. According to the latest HSE figures, 8.3 per cent of those on the referral list for an urgent colonoscopy (48 people) were waiting more than 28 days for the procedure in the week [...]
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