Dear Editor, Further to recent coverage on organ donor awareness, some of the main problems associated with the issue include the fact that the person donating cannot die at home or in a nursing home; they must die in an acute hospital. Indeed, the organ removal team is based in Beaumont only. There are also [...]
Dear Editor, The recent health warnings by Dr Risteárd Mulcahy (Sunday Independent, January 9, 2011) should be heeded by all prescribing doctors.
Dear Editor, I refer to your article in relation to the launch of a new website for registered medical doctors, www.MyDoctorsRes.com (‘A bit of personal cyber space’, http://www.imt.ie/wp-admin/post.php?post=21828&action=edit, Irish Medical Times, February 25, 2011). In the piece, Dr John Thompson claimed in the article that the website had been given access to the records of [...]
Dear Editor, Most of us GPs, after years of practice, consider ourselves good communicators. However, occasionally we come up a little short, as I did in the following manner recently.
Dear Editor, Regarding Dr Ruairi Hanley’s piece ‘Slippery slope to State control’ (Irish Medical Times, January 14, 2011, http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/01/slippery-slope-to-state-control.html), I’m sure it was meant to be read tongue in cheek — otherwise, the man is paranoid.
Dear Editor, The drug treatment clinics have been experiencing a massive drop in the number of opiate-positive urine samples in the past two months. Normally, the clinics expect a detection rate of 33 per cent, but this has dropped to 9 per cent in recent times. The reason for this is down to a drought [...]
Dear Editor, The article that appeared in the November 26 edition of Irish Medical Times (see: www.imt.ie/news/2010/11/methadone-trained-gps-nearing-1000-mark.html) regarding the training of Level 1 and 2 GPs under the Methadone Protocol Scheme contained a number of important and misleading inaccuracies. It says the ICGP trains Level 2 GPs for clinics. The article stated that the ICGP [...]
Dear Editor, I write to congratulate my friend and colleague Dr Seamus O’Beirn on his recent article on health reform in Irish Medical Times (‘A prescription for change’, September 17th, 2010, see www.imt.ie/opinion/2010/09/a-prescription-for-change.html). It should be prescribed reading for all hospital doctors, GPs, medical students and, in particular, HSE management personnel. Unfortunately, the voice of [...]
Dear Editor, I would like to inform your readers that Irish Life, through its Underwriting Department, has asked a patient to get a record from me of his blood-pressure readings (he is on antihypertensive medication) with a view to offering him cover. By using this direct approach, the patient is entitled, through the Freedom of [...]
Dear Editor, I was interested to see your feature on cosmetic surgery in the Irish Medical Times of August 20, 2010, in which Dr Labros Chatzis makes his personal views known to your reporter Mary Anne Kenny (see www.imt.ie/features-opinion/2010/08/protection-needed-for-cosmetic-surgery-patients.html). I would like to point out that the Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons agreed a document [...]
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