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The Irish Medical Times Blog: November 2007

Easy Riders, Easy questions

You're either a biker or you're not, and if you are, nature has a way of reducing your numbers so as to reduce the threat to the general population. Because, let's face it, Ireland's roads are pretty dangerous, but doubly... Read more

Good news for docs, bad news for bus drivers

People who work routine jobs like driving buses are more likely to die before the age of 65 than architects, doctors, solicitors, etc., according to a report by the UK's Office for National Statistics. The BBC has reported, in my... Read more

The HSE's answers

So, if Mary Harney has trouble getting information from the Health Service Executive, what chance do the rest of us have? In a thinly veiled attack on the HSE during a recent Dáil debate on the breast cancer row, the... Read more

No wonder I'm out of shape

Back at university, I used to swim competitively. I'd been at it for many years, since my pre-teens, and when I finally quit, I had truly burned out. I couldn't even look at a pool without feel nauseated, panicked, and... Read more

What happened to Michael Hanratty?

The north's health minister, Michael McGimpsey, has apologised to a 76 year old south Armagh farmer who was informed that he was too old to be treated at the regional acquired brain injury unit in Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast. Readers... Read more

Mike Oldfield's Tubular Addiction

As an ex-smoker, one is subject to many other ailments – especially the dreaded ‘smug mug’ – that supercilleous expression that is the substitute for a cigarette hanging from the mouth. While the smoker exudes an air of coolness —... Read more

To player hate or not to player hate?

A posse of emergency room nurses in the United States has released a short rap song and video about their work. So anyway, I'm thinking that these singing and dancing nurses could provide a solution to allegations of gagging and... Read more

The workings of the HSE

It's old but still good: Once upon a time it was resolved to have a boat race between a hospital team and a team representing the HSE. Both teams trained long and hard to reach their peak performance. On the... Read more

Pick your cause of death

There's hard proof that a person's weight will have a significant impact not just on when they'll die, but why they'll die. Two years ago, a major US study showed that overweight people live longer than normal-weight, obese or underweight... Read more

Everything but the kitchen sink

Once again I have to take my hat off to The Irish News for supplying the inspiration for this blog. The Belfast-based newspaper has broken a great story about what was stolen from 18 hospitals in the north over the... Read more

Night of the living drunk

The Evils of Alcohol, no. 99: getting drunk over Halloween and then passing out in public. A German man dressed as a Zombie was drunkenly returning home after a Halloween party when passengers on his train noticed him passed... Read more