Following the success of last year’s Irish Healthcare Awards, Irish Medical Times is pleased to announce this year’s ceremony will take place on October 15. Once again, the prestigious event will take place at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, and RTE newsreader Bryan Dobson will once again be MC. Last year’s black-tie event sold out, [...]
Dr Mick Molloy writes that although the US healthcare budget is colossal compared to ours, perhaps we can learn something from that country’s cost-saving efforts. An American report in Healthcare IT News explains how the US Government could save up to $600 billion through healthcare reform and health system modernisation in the next decade. By [...]
Dear Editor, I wish to respond to a letter by Dr Ross Ardill in your May 8 letters page (www.imt.ie/opinion/2009/05/pandemic_preparation.html). I suspect the negativity expressed is due to a lack of information that we all suffered from in the past few weeks. I will leave it to the Minister, the HSE and Public Health to [...]
Dr Garrett FitzGerald writes that unscrupulous doctors in the US have been exposed on the internet… but that could not happen here, right? Nowadays, you can blog away without any possibility of being sued. You can say anything you like about anyone, name and shame, make the wildest accusations that emanate from your daft interpretation [...]
Dr Paul Stewart wonders about the qualities of leadership and whether we have enough real leaders in politics. But can we ever assess leadership except in hindsight? A priest I spoke to years ago said that he came to the priesthood at a time when the powers that be tried to make a virtue of [...]
Terence Cosgrave writes that unless we agree on new and improved ways of doing things, then nobody’s hard work or talents will be put to good use — least of all those employed within the health service. We have been warned so often of approaching Armageddon that we have become a little complacent. Doom and [...]
Dr Garrett Igoe writes that the medical profession must take a lead and examine its collective conscience when it comes to pharma sponsorship. Recently I received an invitation to a CME meeting. It is being held in arguably the best restaurant in the county. The meeting is for 8pm sharp followed by dinner. The invitation [...]
Niamh Mullen speaks to weight-loss expert Dr Maurice Larocque, who believes that the way people think about food has to be changed in order to tackle the obesity epidemic When French Canadian weight-loss guru Dr Maurice Larocque visited Ireland last week, more than 1,000 people turned up to hear him speak at a free seminar [...]
Ed Madden, BL looks at a recent case in which a doctor who lied about his educational and medical attainments appealed against a decision to erase his name from the Medical Register. Between 1992 and 1997, Prabhu Satya attended the St George’s Hospital Medical School, where he studied to be a doctor. During his time [...]
Joseph Anthony O’Donnell died prematurely on March 2, 2009. A native of Cahir, the son of Wilfred and Lelia O’Donnell (nee Kirby), Joe went to school in Cahir and nearby Rockwell College, before proceeding to his medical studies in University College Cork, graduating in 1967. He interned in St Finbarr’s Hospital, Cork where he also [...]
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