Terence Cosgrave writes that given the increase in smokers the OTC is a waste of money and should be scrapped According to a survey released last week of over 4,000 Irish people, the rate of smokers in Ireland is now at its highest in 11 years at 33 per cent of the population. The survey [...]
A report from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has once again highlighted the serious manpower problem in general practice. Niamh Mullen reports on its findings Ireland is chronically undersupplied with GPs and we would need to train 250 each year to improve the numbers compared to European levels, a report from the ERSI [...]
Gary Culliton reports on the Irish Hospital Consultants Association’s pre-Budget submission to the Minister for Health The cuts of the early 1990s should be avoided in the forthcoming budget, the President of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA), Dr Paul Oslizlok, has urged. “There is no incentive for hospital managers to get patients in and [...]
Prof Tom Keane says the symptomatic breast cancer service is getting too many unnecessary referrals. Gary Culliton reports The Head of the Cancer Control Programme, Prof Tom Keane, appeared before the Oireachtas Health Committee last week to give the committee a briefing on the current situation with cancer care in Ireland. According to Prof Keane, [...]
Dr Garrett FitzGerald was once sent many patients who suffered from chronic fatigue. He listened with sympathy but believed the condition was psychological Back in the news big-time is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A recent paper in Science reports infection with a gammaretrovirus (XMRV) in 67 per cent of cases. The virus has been detected from [...]
Dr Mick Molloy argues that a reduction in bed capacity should not come before an improved health service is in place. It’s simple logic and a matter of putting the ‘IF’ before the ‘THEN’ George Boole was the first Professor of Mathematics at Queens College, Cork (now UCC) in the early 19th century, and inventor [...]
It was the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons last week. The 20th. This means that there are adults who have never lived in a world without it. It also means I have been, for most of my life, subjected to the compulsion of some people to liken every experience in life to an episode of [...]
Dear Editor, The excellent article (9/10/09) by Dr Garret Fitzgerald revived a poignant nightmare for me, while we was attending the same centre of excellence. A river of Lourdes water ain’t going to wash away the experience. I was bivouacked down the prairie corridor from Dr Fitzgerald when we was a coming up to the [...]
Dear Editor, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” –Peter Drucker, American (Austrian-born) management writer (1909 – 2005). I am thinking of all the innocent men and women in the HSE and the public service, who are doing their individual jobs really well though not appreciated [...]
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent case in which a radiographer appealed against a decision of the High Court after his regulatory body found that he was guilty of serious misconduct In 2003, Stanley Muscat, a radiographer of many years’ standing, was employed by the Royal London Hospital. A number of allegations of misconduct [...]
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