Sandra Ryan writes that there is no legal framework regulating IVF in Ireland and it means doctors are working in a very uncertain environment. Of all the grey areas in the Irish health service, the lack of concrete legislation and rules surrounding IVF and fertility treatment is probably the most contentious. The fact that the [...]
The FIRST ‘HOME Away from Home’ house for Temple Street Children’s University Hospital which will provide a home for families of sick children opened this week. The ‘Your Home Away From Home’ project was launched in early 2006 to assist Temple Street Children’s Hospital in purchasing a house on Fontenoy Street in Dublin 7 for [...]
Gary Culliton writes on the possibility that a cervical cancer vaccination programme will be launched in Ireland soon. Health Minister Harney has indicated that a decision will be made this summer on whether a cervical cancer vaccination programme can proceed. Universal vaccination of all 12-year-old girls against human papilloma virus (HPV), which leads to cervical [...]
Ed Madden BL, looks at a recent Equality Tribunal case in which a Clinical Nurse Manager failed to prove discrimination for not bein allowed retained a 30-hour week on promotion, Ms Susan O’Brien was employed by Cork University Hospital as a Clinical Nurse Manager (1) in the cardiac intensive care unit. She was availing of [...]
In the first article of a new Irish Medical Times series on communication in medicine, Rory Hafford, Senior Consultant with Carr Communications, looks at the best preparation for the medical interview. Doctors are arguably the most highly-trained and best prepared professionals on the planet! They go through years of medical studies, long hours of learning [...]
Despite the introduction of a zero tolerance campaign last June, the number of attacks on healthcare workers is still an issue in Northern Ireland. Attacks on healthcare workers has been raised as an issue of concern once more, this time north of the border. A Social Democratic and Labour Party politician raised the issue recently [...]
Barry O’Brien offers some advice to existing partners in general practice who are looking to recruit a new GP into their partnership. The recruitment of a new GP partner to a general practice is probably one of the hardest and most important decisions any practice will make. How can the current partners find somebody who [...]
Mari Gallagher writes about how television can prove to be a negative influence, both on family life and on the physical and mental health of children today. Irish writer, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne makes a number of insightful comments in her 2007 novel, Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow. Amongst other things, she memorably describes the impact of a [...]
Work carried out by Dr Mark Tramo in Harvard Medical School suggests that patient care can be greatly improved by using music to relieve their pain. Most of us are familiar with how a sudden blast of our favourite piece of music can instantly make a person feel better. Music is a proven mood-enhancer. But [...]
Dr Charles Dupont, Consultant Dermatologist, assesses the seventh edition of the classic textbook on dermatology in general medical practice. This classic American textbook is here again with over 300 contributors and many changes from the sixth edition. Most notably, only a minority of literature references are available in the book – the remainder being obtainable [...]
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