Dear Editor, Dr Bernard Ruane’s characterisations of the Competition Authority, its people and its activities (IMT, 5 March, see www.imt.ie/opinion/2010/03/competition_will_lead_to_furth.html) are ill founded, inaccurate and misleading. Let’s get a few facts straight to start with. First, Dr Ruane claims that the Competition Authority has imposed a rule compelling doctors to advertise their services. The Competition [...]
Dear Editor, I write in relation to an article which appeared on page 1 of a recent issue of Irish Medical Times (April 30, 2010, see www.imt.ie/news/2010/04/pledge_given_on_ni_cancer_cent.html) regarding the Government investing in a new cancer centre in Northern Ireland. Minister Mary Harney is quoted as saying, “Most patients will be able to receive radiotherapy treatment [...]
Ed Madden, BL, looks at recent Supreme Court case in which a doctor invoked competition law in an effort to establish that the Medical Council was an ‘association of undertakings’ Following an inquiry by the Fitness to Practise Committee of the Medical Council in July 2003, the Committee proposed to the Council that Dr Ramadan [...]
Dr John B. Carrigan looks at the work carried out by Third Reich doctors and asks if medical conditions that bear their names should be re-titled What do Reiter, Hallevorden-Spatz and Cauchois-Eppinger-Frugoni have in common? The first answer is that they are all medical syndromes or conditions. But more than that, they all carry the [...]
Dr Eamonn Quigley looks at the reasons behind the success of World Digestive Health Day, which this year focuses on inflammatory bowel disease and falls on 29 May The World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO; formerly known as OMGE, its French and Spanish acronym) is a global organisation whose membership is composed of 110 national societies of [...]
Continuing his series of in-depth articles, Dara Gantly discovers that introducing clinical audit into general practice can be quite simple, and will not require the reinvention of the GP wheel Last week, we examined how the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland envisages it will introduce clinical audit from May 1, 2011, when all registered medical [...]
Former ICGP Chairman Dr Richard Brennan believes medical professionalism is the key to ensuring and maintaining patients’ trust in their doctors. Aoife Connors reports The most important purpose of medical professionalism, at both an individual and institutional level, is to secure patient trust, according to Kilkenny GP and former ICGP Chairman Dr Richard Brennan. In [...]
Mary Anne Kenny writes that the Irish Hospice Foundation’s report on end of life offers a chance to tackle some difficult issues In the last 50 years, scientific research and medical advances have made huge improvements to people’s quality of life and extended lifespans in general. The flip side of this, however, is that death [...]
The RCPI has launched a new training programme that bridges the gap between Basic Specialist Training and Higher Specialist Training, reports Dara Gantly The RCPI has described its new structured postgraduate medical training programme at registrar level as a ‘major advance’ for trainees, which will help resolve the glaring deficits of the unregulated ‘gap years’ [...]
When the planned reconfiguration of the south-east is complete, Waterford Regional is in danger of experiencing the same trolley chaos seen in all other ‘centres of excellence’ Ivan Yates tells it like it is every week in de paper. Last week’s offering was one of his best. He lives in the real world as bookmakers [...]
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