Dear Editor, I contacted you last year (‘HSE tackles waiting lists by stealth’, Irish Medical Times, July 1, 2011, see http://bit.ly/Jpq2Az) when two of my patients were referred back to me by two different hospital administrations, having already spent several months on the waiting list to see a consultant, the justification being that “the patient [...]
Dear Editor, I was recently diagnosed with cancer of the prostate, which as we all now know is very common in men of my age — 60 — PR examination essential. Not wanting the rumour mills to start turning, I put the diagnosis out there among the patients.
Dear Editor, I would like to commend Dr Austin O’Carroll for speaking out about the unacceptably long waiting lists for drug users, particularly in rural areas of the country (Irish Medical Times, May 4, 2012, http://bit.ly/IY5Cli).
Dear Editor, On reading your publication of May 4, 2012, I noted the article on page 4 (‘MC awards legal services contract’, Irish Medical Times, http://bit.ly/IAfowV) referring to the renewal of a legal services contract by the Medical Council.
Dear Editor, I returned from the UK six years ago so that my children could be brought up around their extended family and have a sense of identity. So far this has worked out quite well.
Dear Editor, In a recent edition of Irish Medical Times (April 20, 2012), you published a short piece (written by yourself) on issues relating to how results from randomised trials are presented (‘IMB should review the ‘relative risk’ in ads’, http://bit.ly/K2nyu8).
Dear Editor, I read with interest your story highlighting the analysis by the State Claims Agency regarding the major causative factors identified in claims made against healthcare providers (Irish Medical Times, February 23, 2012, http://bit.ly/IGCOhR).
Dear Editor, I love the Internet. I love the news pages, the gossip pages and even the death notices. I especially love the recent explosion of special offer websites — the Group On, the Piggy Points and even the ICGP Group scheme. Until today.
Dear Editor, The current Government plans to make one of the most radical changes to the health system in the history of the State by developing a system of universal health insurance (UHI) is being overshadowed in the public media by the current National Children’s Hospital fiasco, the NCHD crisis and the medical card debacle.
Dear Editor, Those involved in the care of sick children have been strong advocates for building a hospital that offers best practice for the care of children with complex medical conditions and have been advocating a co-location or tri-location model with an adult Dublin hospital. Unfortunately, no Dublin adult hospital comes close to offering best [...]
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