Terence Cosgrave admires Garret FitzGerald’s recent comments on the reasons why Ireland has such a poor health service. The reluctance of the mainstream media to write about the real issues of the health service is one of the problems that continually dog it. Even in the most august publications, there is an agenda that prevents [...]
Dear Editor, Gareth Hayes’s recent critique in Irish Medical Times of the proposed new cervical smear contract should be compulsory reading for Prof. Brendan Drumm, Prof. Tom Keane, Mary Harney and the undoubted plethora of managers who would be involved in delivering this project. At a recent IMO meeting in the north east, the views [...]
Dr Joyce Galbraith writes about the lack of faith in the health service that is affecting both patients and doctors. The recent non-stop and ongoing stream of complaints from patients and relatives trying to grapple with the deficiencies of the health service was marked by the emphasis given by all of the complainers to the [...]
Dear Cozy Leather SUV Entertainment Complex, How many children do you need watching ‘Spongebob Squarepants’ in the dozen screens of that ridiculous boat of a vehicle to realise that you have failed as a human being? Or is that why you ran the red light through the intersection with me and my high-vis backpack in [...]
The HSE appears to be coming in for a lot of criticism from local authorities, with numerous motions of no confidence being passed in recent weeks and yet more calls for its disbandment. Another council, Wexford County Council, has followed on from others such as Limerick County, Fingal and South Dublin County councils and passed [...]
Nollaig Rowan recalls the curious history behind the naming and patenting of the anticoagulant drug warfarin – and its origins in the bovine world In a Dublin restaurant last summer, a friend pushed aside his salad and spinach and declined another alcoholic drink. He whispered quietly that he was now “on warfarin”, having had valve [...]
Dr C. Dupont reflects on medical educators of the past – who often had their own idiosyncratic ways of teaching medicine Decades ago, some of the aforementioned had charisma and a few were downright eccentrics. If you doubt me, consider some of their idiosyncrasies in detail. One fanatic believed that the sole cause of many [...]
Terence Cosgrave says there are good reasons to believe that the Department of Health discussed the return of the health boards. The Irish Times reported last week that the Department of Health had held high-level discussions about the future of the Health Service Executive (HSE) prior to the publication of the three reports on the [...]
Dr Mark Hannon says that modern life demands means doctors must improve on the service they offer patients. Every day at work I spend a few hours engaged in a pursuit which few lay people would imagine that doctors ever do – I do paperwork. Not only is paperwork a necessary evil for every registrar, [...]
Dr Mick Molloy writes about the administrative and registration nightmares faced by many overseas doctors after they arrive in Ireland to start work on short-term contracts. Moving to Ireland can be a harrowing experience for some medics, particularly so for those on short-term contracts. There is an incredible amount of administration and organisation for those [...]
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