With the summer now (hopefully) in full swing, Australian medic Dr Ernan Hession writes that it’s a good time to follow Australia’s lead in preventing serious skin damage One negative consequence of living in this ‘Great Brown Land’, with its outdoor lifestyle and beach culture, is the extremely high incidence of skin cancer. In fact, [...]
Dr Mick Molloy writes that the recent Supreme Court decision on risk equalisation will fundamentally change the Irish health insurance system. Risk equalisation with respect to community rating of health insurance policies has been, well, equalised — or so says the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that the risk equalisation scheme was invalid and based [...]
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent Equality Tribunal case in which a disability consultant alleged that the HSE had discriminated against him by not re-scheduling a dental appointment, Dermot Walsh, who works as a self-employed disability consultant/trainer, is one of the founding members of the Centre for Independent Living – a body established in [...]
In this week’s feature on medicine and communication, Rory Hafford looks at the most effective ways of avoiding conflict in the workplace. This country has changed. The way we do business is now a lot more rigid and restricted. In many institutions, rule, regulation and red tape are the order of the day. ‘Zero tolerance’ [...]
Terence Cosgrave says that despite the current mood of cutbacks — and particularly the reduction in the number of quangos — the proposed Patient Safety Agency is a quango that must survive the cuts. Two years ago, the two major Opposition parties — Fine Gael and Labour — proposed the establishment of a Patient Safety [...]
Dr John Ryan goes to Chicago and finds it suits him. He will be spending four more years in the US studying cardiology and writing about it for Irish Medical Times I arrived into Chicago in early April. It was my last interview and up until then, I was still unsure as to where I [...]
Fionn Fitzpatrick — a 16-year-old reader of Irish Medical Times — recently sent us this contribution to the paper on alcohol from a teen’s perspective. I felt compelled to write this article after it struck me how much minors are under-represented in columns of the serious media these days. And one topic that really needs [...]
The ancient Egyptians used to have a skeleton present in the midst of feasts and celebrations, Montaigne reminds us, while a man called out, ‘Drink and be merry, for when you are dead, you will be like this.’ To remove the sight of that which you fear the most, as though through voluptuous living you [...]
It’s a wet, cold night on a lonely, country road. A car has turned over and the passengers are gravely injured. A passer-by has called the emergency services and is attempting to assist while he waits. It’s a common scenario, if one reads reports in the press about the numbers of late-night road traffic collisions. [...]
Dr Garrett FitzGerald writes that it’s like Klondike in Clontibret now that a lucky strike has found gold in them there drumlins, but he also wonders how the situation will ‘pan out’. So, everybody knows now. The Clontibret Gold Rush has begun.Doctors in Monaghan Hospital had been becoming suspicious over the past six months. With [...]
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