Dear Editor, I was saddened to read Dr Neil Brennan’s letter to IMT (Letters 18.04.08, www.imt.ie/opinion/2008/04/no_faith_in_system_of_election.html) and his admission that he had spoiled his vote. However, that said, I understand his logic, desperate though I believe his action to have been. The election process is complicated and certainly flawed. One need only be a candidate [...]
Dr Illona Duffy on the need to cure an illness affecting doctors — the deadly ‘HSE’ or Health Spin Exposure. I’ve been having funny symptoms for a while now — dizziness and a feeling of being an extra in Alice in Wonderland. I’ve googled the symptoms and have come to the conclusion that I don’t [...]
Dr Mick Molloy on how some irrational and contradictory policies applied during airport security checks have taken much of the joy out of travelling. Travelling used to be such fun. Trips in the car, trips by train and, in latter years, plane and boat trips have always filled me with such joy. As a child [...]
Kealan Flynn on how Garret FitzGerald’s criticism of Ireland’s public administration, and its handling of the health sector, highlights the need for reform of the Health Service Executive. It has come to something when a former Taoiseach publicly derides the quality of our public services and administration, and directs such a frank and forthright attack [...]
Dear Editor, Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is holding an Information Evening in Galway on Wednesday 23rd April at 7.30pm at the Galway One World Centre, Bridge Mills, Dominick Street. We will be very happy to meet you there and tell you more about our humanitarian medical assistance to some of the most vulnerable people around [...]
Dear Editor, I have just received my ballot paper for the election of doctors to the places allotted for them on the new Medical Council. I am a believer in the democratic process and normally always exercise my right to vote in any situation when it arises. With regret, I have spoiled my vote on [...]
Terence Cosgrave says that the news that Nuala O’Faolain has terminal cancer has opened up a debate on the issue of euthanasia and the wider issue of a dignified death for people diagnosed with terminal illness. Nuala O’Faolain shot to prominence in the late 1990s with her book Are you Somebody? which was a harrowing [...]
A friend recently gave me a satellite navigation system and it really is a most wonderful device. One push of a button, a few seconds of calculations and it tells me exactly what direction to turn and precisely how to get from one far-flung part of this huge country of ours to the other. Not [...]
Dr Mick Molloy on Mercy Hospital’s new emergency department, which is still waiting to be utilised, and the farcical situation of having a state-of-the-art facility with no staff and no patients. This week brought the not unforeseen revelation that there is no money in the kitty, not even for projects that have been finished such [...]
Terence Cosgrave wishes our new Taoiseach well but wonders if he had the ‘vision thing’ required for the health service. In this week’s British Medical Journal, two articles argue whether or not there are too many female medical graduates. Brian McKinstry — a senior research fellow at the University of Edinburgh — argues that there [...]
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