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President’s Blog – Coping with COVID Anxiety and Stress
“But I suggest if you are having these feelings, then tell someone, especially if the pandemic has left you struggling with your head junk for the first time. Starting with a GP. More GPs have saved my life than paramedics, because thankfully the former has put me on...
President’s Blog – Standing Tall in Tough Times
I took this photograph of the Rock of Cashel on a recent walk near my home. The Round Tower on the Rock dates from the 12th Century and as I looked at on it on a beautiful winter’s day, I could not help but ponder on all the history it has seen play out in its time....
Social Prescribing, Planetary Health and Primary Care – By Sean Owens
“We cannot divorce our social circumstances for our health” Erasmus is famed for his quote “prevention is better than cure” yet modern healthcare places emphasis and resources towards cure and expensive complications. Perhaps disease-care would be a more appropriate...
Prescribing and Sustainability – By Aoife Benton
Medicines play a crucial role in our health. They help treat acute and chronic conditions and can also prevent illness. They sometimes save lives. However, there is a growing body of evidence that perhaps doctors are prescribing a little too frequently; the aptly...
Climate Change – What is General Practice’s Role
Despite what Donald Trump may say, climate change is really happening. Most of us have seen pictures of polar bears stranded on melting icebergs. Dramatic wildfires in Australia and California in the past year have stopped not just Kangaroos in their tracks. Newspaper...
Planetary Health in Practice – Blog by Lisa McNamee
Planetary Health starts at a micro level…in the practice itself. General Practitioners, unlike their hospital colleagues, have significant control over their working environment and input into the physical infrastructure of their practice. Best practice is what we...
Pathways to General Practice – Blog by Dr Derek Casey
My name is Derek Casey and I’m a 36 year old GP Principal at Cappoquin Health Centre in County Waterford. I graduated from the South East Training Scheme in July 2020. I decided around half way through final year on the Scheme that I wanted to work for myself and take...
I am Happy Here – A Lifetime in General Practice Blog by Dr Margaret O’Riordan
To a stranger, she was a small frail elderly woman sitting on a chair in a nursing home. To me, she was a woman I had known for many years – fiercely independent, living life to the full and a very infrequent attender at the surgery. She was a member of the “I didn’t...
Touch – A Lifetime in General Practice Blog by Dr Margaret O’Riordan
PPE is essential in our fight against the virus protecting both patient and doctor but it also erects a physical barrier between us. We are trained to be patient centred practitioners, maintaining an open mind and being aware of our body language – striving not to create virtual or physical barriers between us.
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