Dara Gantly on some of the IMO’s ‘Prescriptions for Change’.
Embryos have inherent dignity in their own right
April 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, Dr Stephen Sullivan describes artificially produced embryos as merely a dot on a page when they have developed to 100 cells (‘A ‘poorly informed’ debate on stem cell research in Ireland’, Letters page, Irish Medical Times, March 4, 2011, http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/03/a-poorly-informed-debate-on-stem-cell-research-in-ireland.html). They are at a stage of a ‘continuum’ of development, starting at the [...]
A ‘bridge too far’ on psoriasis
April 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, In response to the recent clinical article ‘Treatment and management options for psoriasis patients’ (Irish Medical Times, April 1, 2011, http://www.imt.ie/clinical/2011/04/treatment-and-management-options-for-psoriasis-patients.html), which mentioned biologic therapies towards the end, Dr Pat Podmore omitted to mention what treatments must fail before employing these toxic, potentially lethal and very expensive modalities. It is important to note [...]
Doctor really should have known better
April 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, As a carer of two family members with ME, I feel Dr John Monaghan’s recent letter (‘The PACE of chronic fatigue’, Irish Medical Times, April 15, 2011, http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/04/the-pace-of-chronic-fatigue.html) perfectly illustrates the real problem surrounding ME. This serious public neurological illness and health condition has had a World Health Organization classification of physical disease [...]
Revenge of the bean-counters
April 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dr Ruairi Hanley resents the implication that goes with professional competence that he somehow needs to be educated at the point of a competence-assurance sword.
Working out legality of working time under the EU Directive
April 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, I read with interest Dr Illona Duffy’s recent opinion article (‘The stress of out-of-hours work is out of order for GPs’, Irish Medical Times, March 25, 2011, http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/03/the-stress-of-out-of-hours-work-is-out-of-order-for-gps.html) and Dr Shane Corr’s recent correspondence regarding 24-hour, 365-day on-call cover liability (‘Reconfigured NEDOC is unsafe for both GPs and patients alike’, IMT, April 8, [...]
New legal interpretation needed on blood tests
April 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
Dear Editor, The issue of GPs charging for phlebotomy services continues to be a contentious issue in the media. The Irish Examiner recently (Tuesday, April 12, 2011) published an article under the headline ‘GPs criticised for charging medical card holders for blood tests’ (see http://bit.ly/ffAHSo). It leads with a statement that “Age Action has welcomed [...]
Web is lifeline for sufferers
April 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, It is worrying that Dr John Monaghan appears completely unaware that ME is defined by the WHO as a neurological illness (Letters Page, IMT, http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/04/the-pace-of-chronic-fatigue.html, April 15, 2011). He suggests that ME sufferers “adopt a sick role” as some sort of escapism. I would like to point out that, on the contrary, I [...]
Let them eat cake or pavlova
April 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
Dear Editor, It has been almost a year now since the Competition Authority issued its declaration of impotence in the form of yet another call for an end to the legal cartel that operates between the HSE and the ‘golden circle’ of GPs with exclusive access to the GMS.
Doctor ‘showed himself up’ with lack of knowledge
April 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, Oh dear, poor Dr John Monaghan of Portiuncula Hospital, showing himself up like that in public (IMT, April 15, 2011, http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/04/the-pace-of-chronic-fatigue.html). In arguing that ME/CFS is a manifestation of patients’ self-delusion, he appears astonishingly ignorant of a basic fact; the real rift is not between doctors and patients, but between different groups of [...]
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