Guest posts

Aoife O’Donnell, Communications Manager with Euromedic Ireland, looks at methods for GPs to develop patient advocacy during a recession {openx:269} The impact of the recession has been felt by the health service by both patients and those practising within the service.

Dr Ruairi Hanley makes no bones about how enjoyable and informative a recent lecture was on the relationship between Napoleon and his Irish physician {openx:269} On April 21, I had the pleasure of attending a wonderful lecture in the Royal College of Physicians organised by the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI) Section of General Practice.

Gary Culliton examines why the State has had to pay out €39.

Prof Tim O’Brien is surprised at how a gift from his wife transports him back to his youth, when socialism seemed the answer to all the world’s ills {openx:269} It was quite unexpected for a flood of memories to result from such a simple gift.

Laura Finn examines the findings of the 2009 Annual Report of the National Sexual Assault Treatment Units, which found that alcohol had been consumed in half of all reported cases {openx:269} Half of all people who attended sexual assault treatment units (SATUs) last year had consumed more than four units of alcohol within 12 hours prior to the incident, according

RTÉ’s multi-platform programme Operation Transformation was a deserving winner at this year’s health literacy awards, reports Dara Gantly {openx:269} The RTÉ project Operation Transformation was awarded first place in the ‘Best Health Communication through Journalism’ category at this year’s Crystal Clear MSD Health Literacy Awards.

Irrespective of one’s religious or political leanings, Dr Ruairi Hanley believes that the medical profession must fight for the right to practise medicine independently {openx:269} I am not a religious fundamentalist.

For a year’s worth of absolute exhaustion as a new mother, I took my girlfriend to Sligo for a nice weekend in a nice hotel, plus a spa treatment and massage for her.

Dr Paul Heslin suggests some ways to deal with problem patients who cannot seem to differentiate between ‘yes’ and ‘no’ {openx:269} Men have long been getting into trouble with the little word ‘no’.

Laura Finn reports on research which found that girls as young as five are negatively influenced by media-constructed, ultra-thin body ideals {openx:269} Girls as young as five years old have shown to be influenced by an unrealistic and unhealthy body-image ideal constructed by the media, according to Prof Helga Dittmar, lecturer in psychology at the University of Sussex.