Guest posts

North Dublin GP Dr Marcus de Brun believes the State, the training colleges, patients and their GPs are all contributing to the significant problems facing our health service.

Dr Simon Mills takes issue with the response of the Bahraini authorities to recent coverage in Irish Medical Times on the arrest and treatment of a number of medics in the Gulf State.

With salaries accounting for more than 70 per cent of a hospital’s budget, Dr Mick Molloy believes solely targeting discretionary budgets would be merely tinkering at the health economic margins.

Dr Mick Molloy writes that although they are easy targets for criticism, hamstrung hospital managers have become the scapegoats of the health system.

Dr Mick Molloy writes that we have to be honest about terms and conditions when recruiting doctors from abroad or we run the risk of damaging our future credibility.

Dr John Ryan writes that doctors can learn an awful lot from their patients and may have more in common with them than they might initially think.

While the looming NCHD changeover has put our manpower crisis in sharp relief, Dr Mick Molloy points out that the ‘emergency’ has been coming down the tracks for more than 20 years.

With the decades of ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘u’ already behind us, Dr Mick Molloy wonders which vowel will be chosen to sum up the next great leap forward in technology.

Dr Mark Hannon argues that there is no such thing as truly free healthcare and the sooner the Irish public acknowledges that, the more they will respect the health service.

Dr Simon Mills believes he has a simple and practical solution that will resolve many of the concerns of non-practising doctors over the Medical Council’s professional competence schemes.