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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Bare to the Elbows One of the most obvious outward manifestations of changes wrought by COVID-19 is the change in clothing worn by health professionals. We have had to embrace PPE – aprons, gowns, masks, visors and gloves. We use vast quantities of soap and hand...
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