Dr Andrew Lyne outlines the steps that doctors should take in order to help ensure safe travel for their patients when they visit high-risk regions Risk assessment is the essential part of the travel consultation to determine the needs of the individual traveller, including specific travel advice, vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis. By gathering the information [...]
Giovanni Morelli had some excellent wines during an even more exceptional meal in a must-visit restaurant in Barcelona Have you taken a Dublin taxi recently? With a few exceptions, most of my taxis have been filthy Toyotas with very smelly drivers. I thought this was unique to Dublin, but not so. I was in Barcelona [...]
Niamh Mullen writes that HSE spending on cabs for patients and staff last year cost more than three times the budget shortfall of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin. A review of patient transport services is under way at the HSE with a view to providing a more structured, efficient and effective service. The review [...]
As the last bits of free time drift irretrievably out of my week, there’s no hope of me trying to keep up with news. I did not, until very late, learn that riots were taking place in Iran. I’ve cut out television, don’t have time to read the newspaper and my girlfriend listens to people [...]
Dr John Ryan visits one of the United States’ most famous landmarks and finds he is becoming more American than Americans themselves. My fiancée Jeanna and I drove from Salt Lake City to Chicago this week. I was telling my sister about our upcoming trip and she said to me, “That is going to be [...]
As the Irish Medical Organisation’s agm fades into memory, it is important to note that as well as debate and discussion of pressing issues, it is also a great time to get away from the daily grind and indulge in some philosophy and introspection. The musical medics also get their chance to shine, and this [...]
Irish Medical Times took off to the ‘real’ capital on the banks of the Lee for our second Practice Management Seminar for GPs last weekend. It was another great turnout of over 75 doctors and a chance to see old friends and some new ones. Irish Medical Times is planning another similar event in Dublin [...]
The scientific sessions at the Irish Medical Organisation’s agm are becoming stronger each year and this year was no exception. A ‘must-see’ this year for sports enthusiasts was the session on ‘The role of Medicine in Sport’. Chaired by Irish Medical Times columnist and sometime pugilist Dr Mick Molloy, the session gave a great insight [...]
There has been a considerable amount of nostalgia-tinged pieces in the media recently about previous recessions, as pundits try to imagine what the effects of this one will be. Ah, the days of leg-warmers, Sony Walkmans, shoulder pads and, of course, the Just-a-Minute Quiz on RTE Radio 2 with Larry Gogan. Larry is, of course, [...]
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