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Answer to the rural general practice crisis?

The health service is under serious pressure. Our Government struggles to cope with a jaw-dropping escalation of costs. A fairly recent visit to our local ED, where I found a multitude of doctors struggling to cope with the flow of patients, confirmed to me that us rural doctors are being replaced by a growing...
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Mental health

Modern approaches to an age-old problem

In 1907, ‘Declan’, a 35-year-old plumber was admitted to Richmond District Lunatic Asylum (later St Brendan’s Hospital) in Grangegorman, Dublin. Declan’s father told the admitting doctor that “we have often seen him wash his hands ten times in half a hour, dry each time, then wash water tap and pipe down to...
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Cancer

Childhood cancers and the importance of early detection

A cancer diagnosis within a family is always a traumatic event, with the impact amplified when it concerns a child being diagnosed. There are approximately 200 cases of cancer diagnosed in the children under the age of 16 years in Ireland annually and it remains the primary disease-related cause of death in...
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Mental health

Gambling addiction: Will new legislation mark a turning point?

Gambling disorder is a medical condition that causes severe consequences for the individual and many people around the individual. Until 2013 gambling addiction was not considered worthy of classification as an addiction in classificatory systems, sitting in a category of ‘impulse control disorder’, with...
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Legal/ethics

An existential issue for the medical profession

Following detailed scrutiny of the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice in July 2021 recommended that an Oireachtas Special Committee be established to undertake further examination on the controversial topic of assisted dying.¹

This Committee is expected to begin its...
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Mandatory open disclosure – what lies ahead?
October 2024

HEALTH SERVICES

Answer to the rural general practice crisis?
July 2024

CHILD HEALTH

The dangers of risk management
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MENTAL HEALTH

Tears in practice
May 2024
HEALTH SERVICES
April 2024
Practice nursing: going from strength to strength

HEALTH SERVICES
March 2024
Time to get serious about measles

MENTAL HEALTH
January 2024
Modern approaches to an age-old problem

LEGAL/ETHICS
November 2023
The dos and don'ts of releasing records

HEALTH SERVICES
October 2023
Audio recordings of consultations: are they inevitable?

HEALTH SERVICES
October 2023
Government missed opportunity with Budget 2024, says IMO

CHILD HEALTH
October 2023
Is ADHD the new epidemic?

MENTAL HEALTH
September 2023
Intellectual disability and mental health

MENTAL HEALTH
July 2023
Dementia and the Decision-Making Capacity Act

CANCER
March 2023
Childhood cancers and the importance of early detection

MENTAL HEALTH
February 2023
Gambling addiction: Will new legislation mark a turning point?

LEGAL/ETHICS
December 2022
An existential issue for the medical profession

HEALTH SERVICES
October 2022
Is GP out-of-hours running out of road?

LEGAL/ETHICS
June 2022
GDPR erasure requests – to delete or not to delete?

HEALTH SERVICES
April 2022
Positivity at a time of great tragedy

GENERAL MEDICINE
March 2022
What we’ve learned from the pandemic

HEALTH SERVICES
February 2022
The climate crisis for doctors – this is our fight

MENTAL HEALTH
December 2021
The pandemic has revealed our strengths

MENTAL HEALTH
August 2021
Forest bathing – embracing nature for mental health

GENERAL MEDICINE
June 2021
Assessing capacity for medical treatment

IMMUNOLOGY
April 2021
Covid-19 in general practice – a nursing perspective

INFECTIOUS DISEASES
December 2020
Coping with a particularly vicious virus

HEALTH SERVICES
September 2020
Use and abuse of ambulance services

INFECTIOUS DISEASES
July 2020
Nursing then, nursing now

RESPIRATORY
June 2020
Management of people cocooning with COPD

INFECTIOUS DISEASES
April 2020
Covid-19: Profound changes in how we care for people
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