Happy New Year! My tip from the outset is let us ration our listening to blanket coverage of Covid misery through the media! I believe this pandemic will end and life will go on. I don’t wish to trivialise this pandemic or any other global catastrophe but it is a […]
Over the next few months, I hope to cover those common symptoms, which we all know can mean something serious is going on and which, if missed, could represent a catastrophe. This month the topic is chest pain. You are just finishing your Christmas dinner and start to experience chest […]
So much has happened this month, I really don’t know where to start. I will let you into a trade secret. The hardest job I have in A&E is referring on to the surgeons and medics for further care: It can be confrontational, as the specialists try and protect their […]
I was surprised to hear that we now do not recommend sterilising babies bottles. The hours of fun I had with boiling water and being ever so clean with our second baby: All a waste of time and just goes to show how advice changes. Another interesting spin off of our […]
It might come as a surprise to readers that doctors are legally obliged to keep up their knowledge and skills every year by spending many hours in training outside of work. The Irish Medical Committee carefully polices this education and woe betide the doctor who falls short with his monitored […]
Last month my wife covered the plethora of menopausal symptoms and treatment options available. Certainly ladies the take home message is that it is well worth discussing the above with your GP. It might come as a big surprise that men also can undergo what has been referred to as […]