Greg Baxter spoke to Prof Geraldine MacCarrick, about the introduction of outcomes-based medical education. The principles of medical education that dominated the 20th century, proposed in 1910 by Abraham Flexner, stated that future doctors ought to spend years listening to lectures, working in labs and memorising textbooks before immersion in a clinical setting largely divorced [...]
Gary Culliton talks about the problems of Ireland’s HSE with the Irish-born troubleshooter and presenter of BBC’s ‘Can Gerry Robinson fix the NHS?’ It doesn’t matter what you pay a Chief Executive, if you get an organisation that works,” according to Irish-born troubleshooter businessman, Sir Gerry Robinson, the ex-Chairman/Chief Executive of Granada and Sky TV. [...]
The Government may have to make decisions, in the fight against alcohol abuse, which will result in a loss of money for the exchequer, a prominent consultant psychiatrist has warned. Dr Siobhán Barry, who appeared last week before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, spoke to Irish Medical [...]
Ian McGuinness spoke to incoming IMO President Dr Martin Daly about his dissatisfaction with the ongoing problems regarding the GP contract. The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) will use legal means, if necessary, to assert its right to represent general practitioners, the outgoing Chairman of the union’s GP Committee has announced. Dr Martin Daly, who is [...]
Gary Culliton talks to the Irishman now charged with running cancer-care services in the US state of Texas Galway-born Dr Frank Giles is responsible for cancer care in a much larger population than the entire island of Ireland. He heads up functional clinical cancer services for many millions of people in Texas as Chief of [...]
Greg Baxter talks about plans for national AMAUs to Dr Bernard Silke, the Director of the Acute Medical Admissions Unit at St James’ Hospital The Health Service Executive’s (HSE’s) plan to reduce its dependency on acute inpatient beds is fundamentally flawed – in more ways than one – a leading physician has told Irish Medical [...]
Sandra Ryan speaks to the now-retired Dr Aiden Meade, who was over 40 years in general practice and helped found the Sick Doctors Scheme There are not many GPs left practising in Ireland who started out in the 1940s or ‘50s – and those few who are left are slowly retiring, ending an era when [...]
Gary Culliton talks to Dr Jerome Manuceau – the surgeon suspended after a number of complaints were made to the Medical Council last year. An inquest* will be held on 5 February into the death of Ms Bernadette Kavenagh-Reid, who died a year ago following a procedure by a doctor working at Advanced Cosmetic Surgery’s [...]
People may be sick of reading about the problems in the health service – especially, of late, problems in women’s health services – but for the medical personnel trying to wade through the problems and simply do their job every day, it can be even worse. A lot depends on attitude, and many Irish doctors [...]
St Patrick’s Hospital in Dublin is to launch a new strategy this spring, its newly-appointed Medical Director has revealed. While Dr Jim Lucey did not want to give specific details of the strategy at present, he explained that it will be the first round of developments during his tenure. Whether or not the hospital constructs [...]
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