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The Irish Medical Times Blog: January 2008

14 hour wait for Ambulance Driver

You would think that - of all groups - ambulance drivers would be able to access speedy treatment, but in the case of one County Galway ambulance driver recently, it was slow as Monday morning traffic on the M50. The... Read more

Toothfairy sighting at Mayo General Hospital

A toothfairy-like figure appears to be haunting Mayo General Hospital, tip-toeing around wards – sorry, around trolleys and chairs – where patients sleep, leaving notes under their pillows apologising for the conditions at the hospital. It may not make up... Read more

The walking wounded

This guy, about fiftyish and fairly well-dressed, was dandering through Dublin city-centre the other night carrying a cardboard box, which was nearly full with what appeared to be tins of beer. Nothing so unusual about that, except that, from each... Read more

Health in Iraq

When we think of the destructiveness of war, it's easy to forget the damage done beyond the body count and the injuries. But for the record, a recent new study from the World Health Organisation puts the death toll in... Read more

Fifteen times a day

There were over 5,500 reported instances of physical or verbal assaults against healthcare workers in Northern Ireland in 2006. Maybe it's just me but when I read that recently in the South Belfast News, it took me by surprise because... Read more

KEY TRENDS OF 2008

Those wily trendspotters (trainspotters?) are at it again. From the people who brought you http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=imEQX metrosexual man, globesity and domestic divas comes the new trends for 2008.... Read more

An answer for the January blues?

Many moons ago our esteemed former news editor wrote a blog about a panda falling out of a tree. He managed to tenuously link it to health by suggesting that you could conduct an elementary form of psychoanalysis on people,... Read more

Is this a fight back?

Has any verbally or physically abusive hospital patient ever been taken to court or had any type of legal action brought against them? A minority of patients and their relatives, who attend accident and emergency departments, can be obstreperous at... Read more

Who else is tired of David McWilliams?

The Irish Independent's first lead story of 2008 was strange for a number of reasons. The thrust of the story was this: the President of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine, Mr Fergal Hickey, wrote an angry letter to Mr... Read more