By Aoife Connors. The European Parliament has issued a call for innocent prisoners in Bahrain to be released and for parties to engage in productive dialogue, with a view to conflict resolution.
A bit of personal cyber space
February 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The founder of MyDoctorsRes.com, anaesthetist Dr John Thompson, tells Lloyd Mudiwa how his web portal will help doctors expand their professional network and facilitate cross-specialty research.
RCSI recruiting doctors for Malaysia
January 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) is seeking to recruit staff for a new undergraduate medical school in Malaysia, which is due to open in the middle of this year. According to the RCSI, the appointments will be for periods of up to three years at Penang Medical College [...]
Council is supporting 21 doctors with difficulties
November 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie The Medical Council is offering support to 21 doctors (0.1 per cent of the Council’s total membership) with either addiction problems, mental illness or an infectious disease, although fears remained that some doctors are putting their patients at risk of harm by failing to seek help. “Certainly, there are doctors who [...]
The IMT photo gallery is up and running again
August 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The world-famous IMT Photo Galley is back! So if you have some time and want to take a look at which colleagues are attending which conferences, or who’s winning prizes, or giving speeches, click on the link above, or click on Gallery in the main menu bar. The page will be updated every Tuesday.
MEP goes after rogue doctors by proposing EU-wide medical registry
March 26, 2009 By 1 Comment
Ireland South MEP Colm Burke wants to amend the Cross-border Healthcare Directive to stop medical professionals who have been struck off the medical register in one member state of the EU from practicing elsewhere. MEP Burke’s amendment reads: “There shall be an EU register of professional medical practitioners who have been struck off the medical [...]
The six habits of highly successful physicians
December 2, 2008 By 1 Comment
A columnist in the New York Times writes that good manners are among the most overlooked of skills in doctors. He offers a list of six habits that help you make a good first impression: • Ask permission to enter the room; wait for an answer. • Introduce yourself; show your ID badge. • Shake [...]
It’s hard enough being a heavy-drinking, cigarette-smoking, overweight doctor
October 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment
New research in the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health looks at the effects of working more than 40 on-call hours a month on doctors. The study showed that doctors had a hard time coping with on-call duties while dealing with another risk factor such as heavy drinking, smoking, obesity, and low physical activity. [...]
Do patients turn you on? Often? Sometimes? Never?
October 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A New York Magazine survey of 50 top doctors – so it’s a year old, so what? – found that more than half (28) of those surveyed said doctors have God complexes, but when asked if they had God complexes themselves, only two answered “Yes.” So do doctors have bad perceptions of each other, or [...]
You’re too sick to go to work, but you’re a doctor, so you go anyway
August 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Dr Jane Doe from Two Weeks on a Trolley is feeling sick. She’s got two options – go in and make everybody else sick, or stay home and fall out with hospital management. There’s got to be a better way, she says. And there is, just not in Ireland. Thanks to the Biopsy Report for [...]
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