Dear Editor, I am writing in relation to the Vhi Healthcare Diabetes and Health Assessment Project. Like other GPs, our practice is currently receiving a lot of these reports from the local Vhi Medical Centre. However, most of the tests done have already been undertaken within my practice as a co-ordinated part of the patients’ [...]
Dear Editor, Dr Ruairi Hanley’s recent article on Diageo’s promotion of an annual day to commemorate the creation of Guinness (IMT, 30 July 2010, see http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2010/07/in-search-of-a-well-fair-system.html) is to be welcomed. This particular marketing ploy must be seen for what it is, and in my opinion is the same old guff that Diageo (Guinness) has been [...]
Dear Editor, In the good old days, ‘ED’ meant only one thing — erectile dysfunction — and we all knew what we were dealing with when we saw it in print. Now we have the situation where in the relatively recent past, ‘casualty’ became ‘A&E’ and then became the ‘emergency department’, hence a further ‘ED’. [...]
Dear Editor, An article on July 30 carried the headline ‘Antidepressants prevent suicides in young people’ (see www.imt.ie/clinical/2010/07/antidepressants-prevent-suicides-in-young-people.html). Obviously, this is an important public health issue given that in 2009, four persons age 14 and under and 90 aged 15-24 were recorded as dying by suicide. A further three aged 14 and under, in addition [...]
Dear Editor, Dr Moosajee Bhamjee (IMT, July 9, page 11, ‘Swapping one illegal drug for another legal one’; see www.imt.ie/opinion/letters/2010/07/swapping-one-illegal-drug-for-another-legal-one.html) is grossly inaccurate in stating that “methadone was to be prescribed for only a minority (10 per cent) of heroin addicts who had failed to abstain”. The treatment of choice for heroin addiction is opioid-agonist [...]
Dear Editor, I would like to respond to Dr Ruairi Hanley’s article in Irish Medical Times, which appeared on 23 July 2010 (‘Close to perfect competition report’ see www.imt.ie/opinion/2010/07/close_to_perfect_competition_r.html). It is difficult to know whether his colleagues should feel disappointed, offended, saddened or just sorry for him, given his child-like response to the publication of [...]
Dear Editor, In view of the recent public march in Kilkenny over health cuts and subsequent media coverage, we, the undersigned family doctors from Carlow-Kilkenny, members of the Irish College of General Practitioners, are writing on behalf of our colleagues to represent local GPs’ views on the proposed reconfiguration of acute hospital services in the [...]
Dear Editor, In your recent front-page lead article on 16 July, ‘Harney highlights missed targets’ (see www.imt.ie/news/2010/07/harney_highlights_missed_targe.html), you mention that the HSE in its Corporate Plan Report July-December 2009 states that 10 out of 30 service metrics were “within the top quartile of performance”. This is in the report and is also documented in the [...]
Dear Editor, In your recent front-page story ‘Harney highlights missed targets’, published on July 16 (see www.imt.ie/news/2010/07/harney_highlights_missed_targe.html), you reported that the Minster for Health had told the Chairman of the HSE that “performance is not reaching required levels” in relation to orchidopexy, GP out-of-hours services and waiting times for child and adolescent mental health services. [...]
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