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The Irish Medical Times Blog: June 2007

Mary's Mission Impossible

Mobile phones with quirky ringtones are fun, especially in the hands of middle aged men and women. Even more so when the people concerned are the democratically elected representatives of the people of the Republic of Ireland. During her first... Read more

The sounds of silence

Men were outnumbered by about 10 to one at the recent Combat Poverty Agency conference on Community Participation in Primary Care, which was held in Croke Park. I don't know why that was. Maybe women care more about the... Read more

The Top 40 Movers and Shakers in Irish Healthcare

This year Irish Medical Times celebrates 40 years of reporting the news in Irish healthcare. It is a milestone to be celebrated as far as we are concerned. Those of you practising medicine in the Irish Republic should have... Read more

Digging up the past

Maybe if the Western Health and Social Care Trust were involved in the peace process in the north of Ireland, then peace, love and harmony would have broken out decades ago. You see the Trust has managed to unite the... Read more

Finally- the man's side of the story

The following direct quotes are taken from a new report published by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency on men's experiences of sex, crisis pregnancy and abortion in Ireland. It's really interesting to see the issue from a man's point of... Read more

Money, patients and the Mental Health Commission

Maybe it got lost in the election. Maybe it was because it revealed a few embarrassing facts. Maybe the powers-that-be just thought our lives were too complicated and we already had enough to think about. Whatever it was, the... Read more

Thinking ahead - and forward

The UK government has agreed in principle to begin vaccinating 12- and 13-year-old girls against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer - human papillomavirus (HPV). Here's the BBC on just how controversial teenage sex - implied at... Read more

Raindrops keeping fall on my head

The ongoing deluge of rain which is hitting Ireland might just save the lives of some of the more foolish in our society. They are the geniuses who insist on running out and sunning themselves like cats whenever so much... Read more

Peruvian-hatted puritan apostles of grassy nihilism

With the apparent Irish wedding of the century the soon-to-be-announced nuptials of Fianna Fail and the Green Party led by Trevor Sargeant (pictured above), it is probably appropriate to look at how some other media commentators look at people... Read more

Is the HSE waiting for the National Renal Strategy to hatch?

The Renal Strategy Review Group sent the final draft of its report to the Health Service Executive in December 2006. The draft National Strategy, which must be approved before it is published (apparently by all 108,000 HSE employees, based on... Read more

The rise of the machines

Some people wouldn't even breathe for themselves if they could get a machine to do it for them. This remark is aimed at a large group of a certain type in our society. Typically, they are relatively young (15 to... Read more

The fertile lands of England

New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the UK's fertility rate has hit its highest level since 1980, with women now having 1.87 children (on average). Experts have said the number is not likely to reach the... Read more

I suppose you think that's funny?

Well, I don't know about you but we certainly fell for it. Full of righteous indignation, we ranted and raved about the depravities of the modern world and how far we, as a society, have fallen. Big Brother is bad... Read more

Time to protest

A number of trade unionists have called for the end of privatisation of the health services. The most vocal of them is Jack O'Connor, general secretary of SIPTU, who told the Sunday Business Post that his preference would be for... Read more