Dara Gantly looks at how IT is finally being utilised to deliver much-needed reforms in the health service.
The stuff dreams are made of
February 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
With a little help from NASA, Dr Garrett FitzGerald discovered he was able, on reflection, to improve on one of Flann O’Brien’s greatest experiments.
Defenders of the State
February 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dr Ruairi Hanley is passionately opposed to any potential moves to pardon the Irish army deserters who went to fight for the British in World War II.
First-hand account of the treatment of a Bahrain doctor
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, My name is Dr Bassim Dhaif FRCSI, FRCS (Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Salmaniya Medical Complex, Bahrain, Associate Professor, College Of Medicine, Arabian Gulf University, Past Chairman, Department Of Orthopaedics, Past President, Bahrain Orthopaedic Association, Past President, Bahrain Sports Medicine Association. I am married. I have four children; the eldest is 19, the youngest [...]
RTÉ gives ‘long-play’ records a bad name
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, As I sit in my office on a quiet morning in general practice, I can hear strains of Mr Tambourine Man gently wafting in from the radio speakers in the waiting room next door. This is followed by Pat Kenny talking about something utterly predictable, elucidating an array of opinions on the usual [...]
Continued Irish support is very much appreciated
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, I would like to thank Dr Ruairi Hanley very much for the support he and people like Prof Damian McCormack and others in Ireland are expressing locally and internationally on Bahrain (Irish Medical Times, January 27, 2012, http://bit.ly/A2qbzd). I am very pleased with Dr Hanley’s enthusiasm, which unfortunately some of our colleagues in [...]
Ode to a ticker that isn’t dickie — yet
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I didn’t suspect I had a dickie ticker, If I did, I may have gone to A&E quicker, The pain came on slowly, not all of a sudden, So, thankfully, I’d time to finish the black and white puddin’.
Does size really matter in modern medical practice?
February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dr Muiris Houston looks at the implications of new research, which examined whether physician body weight is a barrier to care in overweight and obesity.
Garda had to prove assault caused infection
February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Fifty-six-year-old Raymond Francis Roche is a former member of An Garda Síochána and lives in Dundalk, Co Louth. On November 20, 1999, Mr Roche, who was on crutches following an arthroscopic procedure carried out on his right knee some four days previously, was assaulted by a member of the public.
Health plans in a chronic state
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Are the long-promised plans to move towards chronic disease management in primary care in a chronic condition, asks Dara Gantly.
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