Hospital residences are the focus of many a rant. The rant often has, as its focus, the standard of decor; the furniture; the availability or not of a TV for those long weekends on-call; the availability of food or somewhere to cook food; and the cleanliness or frequency that the room or bedding is cleaned [...]
Máire Hoctor, the newly appointed Minister for Older People, has one good thing going for her. She has no hard act to follow. None of the last three incumbents made any indent on their portfolios. Respectively they were ineffectual, appalling and anonymous. They not only dropped the ball, but they did so on their own [...]
Britain is seeing some interesting and dangerous developments in the advent of terrorism. Seven suspects, at least five of them doctors, have been arrested for involvement in the recent botched terrorist attacks on London and Glasgow. This time terrorism took a new turn. It shows the increasing gravity and intensification in the spate of terrorist [...]
Irish Medical Times Editor Colin Kerr is leaving the paper after eight years. He says its future is in good hands and IMT will continue to uphold its commitment to be the independent paper for Irish doctors, without fear or favour This is my last issue of editor of Irish Medical Times. Next month, I [...]
Colin Kerr applauds Dr Hillery and Dr Gueret’s performances in the Seanad election and stresses the need for an independent doctors’ representative in the Seanad Congratulations are due to Dr Maurice Gueret and Dr John Hillery for their performances in the recent Seanad election. While neither doctor won a seat, they both raised important issues [...]
Dear Editor, During the 1990s Ireland experienced a 41 per cent increase in alcohol consumption and suicide rates increased by 44 per cent, showing an almost 100 per cent correlation. A study into unnatural deaths in 2001 and 2002 in Louth, Meath and Cavan found that 93 per cent of young men aged under than [...]
Depending on the number of people in the catchment area of any emergency department, atypical presentations for drug reactions may not be a frequent occurrence. Doctors in emergency departments are more used to seeing these presentations than a GP, but with a reaction requiring treatment there is rarely time to get a detailed history. h4. [...]
Dear Editor, Reports this week that the GAA is to enter an arrangement to provide 125 defibrillators in clubs around the country, is to be warmly welcomed. This news should provide encouragement to local authorities and to gyms to do the same. These defibrillators dramatically improve the chances of survival if somebody does suffer a [...]
Dear Editor, I write to agree with Dr Mick Molloy whose article appeared in Irish Medical Times on 27 July on the importance of precautionary demonstrations to ensure that emergency plans will work in hospitals. Dr Molloy refers to the emergency at Dun Laoghaire where a number of children fell from boats into the water. [...]
Psychiatry has often been referred to as the Cinderella of the health service and as far as funding is concerned that is certainly true, particularly when considered in the light of the contribution of mental ill-health to morbidity. And yet the delivery of healthcare in psychiatry is in many respects a model not without lessons [...]
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