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Opinion

Today, tonight and tomorrow for consultants

Dara Gantly | 05 February 2010

Dara Gantly examines what the HSE has in store for those consultants identified as having exceeded their specified private practice ratio... Read more

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Ensuring health equality for all of Europe’s women

Dara Gantly | 05 February 2010

Dara Gantly examines a new report that gives a snap-shot of the health of women across the EU... Read more

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Hospital hygiene needs some help

Gary Culliton | 05 February 2010

Gary Culliton investigates the latest findings of the HIQA spot-check reports to see which hospitals have the most serious hygiene problems... Read more

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Getting entry into Irish medical schools down pat

Niamh Mullen | 05 February 2010

HPAT: SPECIAL REPORT - In the first part of our series on the HPAT exam and with this year's test fast approaching, Niamh Mullen charts the introduction of the much-talked-about admissions test for medical school since it was recommended four... Read more

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Testing times for medical students

Brian Herron | 05 February 2010

HPAT: SPECIAL REPORT - When the Working Group for Medical Education sought to develop a strategy to diversify the mix of entrants to medical schools, it had international experience from which to draw, writes Brian Herron... Read more

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Opening our natural selection boxes

Dr Garrett FitzGerald | 04 February 2010

While every unhappy family may be unhappy in its own way, Dr Garrett FitzGerald discovered some common genetic traits at Christmas... Read more

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Detecting Columbo's 'just one more thing'

Dr Paul Heslin | 04 February 2010

Dr Paul Heslin knows there is nothing quite as annoying for a busy doctor as the last-minute medical query as the patient is about to exit the surgery... Read more

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Thoughts on the death of JD Salinger

G.B. | 04 February 2010

I didn’t even know JD Salinger was still alive until recently, when his lawyers stopped publication of a book, written by a bit of a self-professed jokester hack, about Holden Caulfield as a grown-up. I think that was last year.... Read more

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Competition may in fact lead to higher GP fees

04 February 2010

Copy of letter sent to Mr Declan Purcell, Competition Authority. Dear Mr Purcell, I would like to query the basis of recent claims by yourself and the Competition Authority [as reported in IMT, January 1&8, 2010, page 8]. Twenty years... Read more

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Taking stock of the ‘Newry effect’ in drugs

04 February 2010

Dear Editor, Many of our patients are at present under severe financial pressures. This week, I spoke to one patient who stopped their statin (ten-year risk 18 per cent) because it was too expensive, and to another patient who stopped... Read more

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Limited industrial action and the law

Ed Madden, BL | 03 February 2010

Ed Madden, BL, on a court case in which the judge considered whether an employer is entitled to suspend employees engaged in industrial action and withhold salary payments... Read more

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Seeing South Africa with a stethoscope

Dr Cillian Clancy | 03 February 2010

Dr Cillian Clancy experienced first hand how South Africa's health system still suffers from a form of apartheid, based now on a patient's ability to pay... Read more

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Suspension follows bizarre sports 'injury'

Dr Simon Mills | 03 February 2010

Dr Simon Mills tells the story of a cheating incident at the quarter final of the Heineken Cup, and the cover-up attempt that got a doctor suspended... Read more

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A legend in infectious disease remembered

Dr Robert O'Sullivan | 03 February 2010

Dr Robert O'Sullivan writes that for all his discoveries and innovations, what set Charles Donovan apart was his never-failing humanity... Read more

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New landmark sculpture for St James's Hospital

Dr John Wallace | 03 February 2010

Dr John Wallace reports on a sculpture by the artist Eamonn O’Doherty, to be unveiled at the entrance to St James’s Hospital in Dublin... Read more

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