Dear Editor, Re Tim O’Brien’s description of his trip to Berlin in today’s IMT: May I point out that the Altar of Zeus at Pergamum and the Isthar Gate at Babylon were not constructed at the same time as Newgrange. The former was constructed three thousand years later and the latter about two and a [...]
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent English Court of Appeal case in which an NHS Trust appealed against a decision of the High Court that it was partly responsible for a misdiagnosis that led to the birth of a disabled child Basem Farraj and his wife Hanan, who are both Jordanian, are carriers of [...]
Dr James Reilly visited the Netherlands to see how the best-ranked health service in Europe operates. Niamh Mullen reports At the MC Haaglanden Hospital in The Hague there are no trolleys in the emergency department, no large wards and no need for alcohol gel because there is no problem with MRSA or C diff. Patients [...]
Brian Herron reports on the publication of the Irish Heart Foundation’s Stroke Manifesto, which contains 16 urgent proposals The severe lack of specialised stroke services is putting Irish patients in ‘unnecessary and intolerable danger’. That’s the message from Dr Brian Maurer, Medical Director of the Irish Heart Foundation, who spoke at the launch of the [...]
Niamh Mullen reports on Irish research which suggests more teenagers are underweight than overweight Fewer Irish teenagers than expected are overweight, according to a study undertaken at a rural general practice. A review of the height and weight of 103 teenagers between 13 and 19 found a higher proportion were, in fact, underweight. Dr Caroline [...]
Aisling Gannon of Beauchamps Solicitors outlines the fundamentals of medical negligence in Irish law as established by the ‘Dunne’ case in 1989 Having represented obstetricians/gynaecologists and obstetric units for the last ten years the following are what are perceived to be the areas most likely to be challenged legally by patients of Irish maternity services. [...]
Terence Cosgrave witnessed a command performance from Prof Brendan Drumm at the rural doctors conference, but despite the welcome improvement in communications there are still issues that must be addressed in primary care The appearance of Prof Brendan Drumm at the Rural, Island and Dispensing doctors conference last weekend brought to the surface a lot [...]
Prof Brendan Drumm writes — in response to a letter in Irish Medical Times — that the health service is showing measureable improvement in many areas Ireland’s health service is steadily climbing up the Euro Health Consumer Index (up 15 places this year). However the authors suggest that this improvement is not recognised by the [...]
Dr Garrett FitzGerald tells the story of a late, much-admired doctor and a patient who claimed that rural electrification had eliminated the need for men to go searching for wives I’m retired long enough to wonder what exactly it is that hospital doctors do now. Perhaps some still-practicing colleagues would write in and let me [...]
Dr John Ryan told his attending he could see images in an echocardiogram, but when it came to his first night in ICU, he realised he needed to learn more about ultrasound technology “Even your emotions had an echo.” That was what Gnarls Barkley told us when they ruled the airwaves in the summer of [...]
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