Laurence O’Dwyer on how the principles of social medicine are bringing the medical skills and technology of Harvard to the impoverished country of Haiti HIV attacks the immune system in only one way, but its course and outcome are shaped by factors that have very little to do with the pathology of the disease. A [...]
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent case in which the insurer refused to pay out on an insurance ‘living cover’ policy when the woman who had the policy developed MS In the late 1990s Caroline Coleman, who was then 27 years old, was in the process of purchasing a house. This involved obtaining a [...]
With only one week remaining to get your entries in for Ireland’s most prestigious healthcare awards, Niamh Mullen offers some last-minute advice from the experts Tips offered by members of the Irish Healthcare Awards judging panel and previous winners stress the need for applicants to document how their project has helped patients. Judging panel member [...]
Dr Amin A. Muhammad spent a week working as a locum in the UK to see what the situation is really like for a consultant in the NHS A number of steps were taken by the UK Government for the improvement of the healthcare system of the country. Revamping the National Health System (NHS) was [...]
An outstanding doctor and scientist — and also a dear friend and colleague — has been lost after the untimely death of Prof John Feely last month It is with great sadness that we announce the untimely death of Prof John Feely, who passed away on June 10, 2009, leaving his family and friends in [...]
Dr John Ryan writes that as the world was watching blanket media coverage of Michael Jackson’s death, he was consumed by thoughts of his new life in Chicago. Everything changed the day Michael Jackson died, because it was the day that I moved to Chicago. On the day prior, Boston University had organised a lunch [...]
June Shannon speaks to Dr Michael Boland on his recent retirement as Director of the ICGP’s Postgraduate Resource Centre, after 25 years with the College. Irish general practice owes a huge debt of gratitude to Dr Michael Boland, who has retired recently after a quarter of a century with the Irish College of General Practitioners. [...]
Dara Gantly reports that staffing issues in the Central Mental Hospital have been addressed and that the hospital is to stay in Dundrum. The Clinical Director of the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) has stated that recent concerns over staffing levels at the Dundrum facility have been resolved. Prof Harry Kennedy has stressed that staffing levels [...]
Dara Gantly reports that Ireland has been referred to the European Court of Justice due to Vhi’s exemption from some EU rules on non-life insurance. The European Commission (EC) has referred Ireland to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over the exemption of Vhi Healthcare from certain EU rules on non-life insurance. The recent referral [...]
I had not, until I experienced it myself, realised how much trouble a displaced hammer-toe can cause. Frequent visits to a chiropodist, which necessitated dressings and an inability to wear my favourite shoes, made me increasingly feel like the dead parrot in the Monty Python sketch. The second toe of my left foot was just [...]
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