There is an acceptance by most people that someday, they are going to die. With the exception of Death Row inmates and suicides, we all have in common that fact, and that none of us know exactly when. We all hope it’s further away than it probably is. No matter, it’s going to come some [...]
Dear Editor, I would like to ask for your help to find the oldest doctor in Ireland. Please ask your readers to nominate their candidate for the ‘Ireland’s Oldest Working Person’ awards 2008. In association with Friends of the Elderly and the ‘Say No To Ageism Week’, Friends of the Elderly is combating ageism by [...]
Dear Editor, As you have recently reported, the appointment of the new Medical Council in its new format, with a politically-appointed majority, is to take place within the next six weeks. The new Council will have 12 medical representatives and 13 politically-nominated ones. For the first time in the history of the Council, it will [...]
Ed Madden BL looks at a High Court case in which the Court cancelled a finding of the Medical Council that a pathologist in the Army Medical Corp was guilty of professional misconduct. On 10 April 2000, Lieutenant Colonel Michael McCarthy, a member of the Army Medical Corps and Chief Medical Officer in the Eastern [...]
Dear Editor, The conclusion by Dr Ann O’Doherty in her report on Portlaoise that “the safety, quality and standard of many aspects of breast imaging service…fell well below achievable best imaging practice and that this resulted in a significant and avoidable delay in the diagnosis of breast cancer” is a shocking finding and an indication [...]
Dr Mick Molloy writes on the many ethical considerations behind organ donation and takes a look at the different systems for providing consent. The concept of organ donation is not one we think about much except possibly when issued with a new driving licence or in the pharmacy when we view organ donation cards at [...]
Kealan Flynn writes about the continuing dispute between community chemists, the HSE and the Minister for Health, which may yet trigger a mass exodus from the GMS scheme. In the Roman world, the most infamous of the Ides fell on the day in 44 BC when the emperor Julius Caesar, having summoned the Senate but [...]
Having had the experience of meeting a good number of GPs from Munster and south Leinster this week at the Irish Medical Times’ seminar in Cork, it struck me that many GPs plough a lonely furrow and need to have regular meetings with their GP colleagues to compare their situations and to seek advice from [...]
Dear Editor, I witnessed your appearance on ‘TV3 Nightly News with Vincent Browne’ last week and I must say — as the mother of several doctors — I was disappointed to see the Editor of Irish Medical Times refer to older people as “old grannies”. You will be old yourself one day and you should [...]
Dear Editor, The Irish Cancer Screening Service has issued a draft contract for GPs on its web site and had invited GPs to respond before 28th February 2008. (IMT readers can view the contract at http://www.icsp.ie/about_us/the_national_cancer_screening_service__board.450.html). I have spent some considerable time analysing and commenting on the draft. In my opinion, the draft contract is [...]
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