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Advice for hot women

Dr Jeff Featherstone July, 2021

My wife, Anne, has followed the wide coverage recently of the debate around HRT. She has criticised me, as a GP, for the fact that only 10 per cent of women are taking HRT! In my, and every male doctor’s defence, I plead that we leave these matters to the […]

Back to pen and paper

Dr Jeff Featherstone June, 2021

Just as things were starting to look up in the hospitals – on Friday, May 14, we were hit by another disaster. I thought this month that I might pass on a few tips to patients attending A&E during what is likely to be a long, drawn-out period with almost […]

The double-edged immunity sword

Dr Jeff Featherstone May, 2021

Most of us appreciate that vaccination against Covid is good and likely to get us back to normal and, while we all talk expertly about new variants, spike proteins, T Killer Cells, PCR tests and so on, I have some better news about immunity. I recently attended a three-day Zoom […]

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The story with Covid

Dr Jeff Featherstone July, 2020

So, I have a lot of catching up to do. For those of you who missed the ‘electronic’ edition of West Cork People, I will just give you some thoughts on where we are with Covid-19 and what it has been like in A&E. On March 19, I shifted from […]

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A slow return to normality

Dr Jeff Featherstone May, 2020

Well, as I said last month, Cork has done really very well in obeying the rules and recommendations to limit the spread of Covid19. Well done everyone, it has not been easy at all. We all look forward to getting back to some sort of normality, but let us not […]

Trust in each other

Dr Jeff Featherstone April, 2020

Well the world has changed a lot in the last month. I would like to thank everyone for listening to the lockdown advice! Well done. It is not easy I know. In our GP setting, patients have quickly become used to telephone and ‘video’ consultations. There is a huge amount […]

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