Rural GP of 30+ years - sideline view of imploding health service. Views expressed entirely my own. Retweets not an endorsement
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Another original thinker at the helm in DOH.
Good idea Minister. Let’s accuse doctors of not working hard enough, & blame them for the problems in our health service. That will improve morale, retention of doctors & outcomes for patients.
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Patrick O'Dwyer retweeted
Confirming our position that there is no role for Physician Associates in general practice – our Chair @KamilaRCGP submits letter to the Leng Review.
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#LengReview
ALT Professor Kamila Hawthorne.
Patrick O'Dwyer retweeted
Independent candidate and former government minister Katherine Zappone has been eliminated in the ninth count in the Seanad Dublin University/Trinity College election.
Ms Zappone was eliminated after receiving 1,039 votes, including 950 first preferences.
Patrick O'Dwyer retweeted
Inaccurate reporting alert 🚨... Important to understand differences between GPs and hospital docs here i.e. We do all our own clinical follow up... 1/7 independent.ie/irish-news/on…
I agree with Sarah - and in addition if we could cease this narrative of patients ‘ fighting a battle with cancer’.
Dr Sarah Fitzgibbon dismantles the fallacies of the illness blame-game
@SarahFitzWiMIN @deepend_ireland #socialdeterminantsofhealth
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The puritanical Gaelgoirs will have to swallow hard and calm themselves - their absolutism has failed.
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Patrick O'Dwyer retweeted
👏Congratulations to @AilishHannigan on winning a Research Output Award in the @EHSFacultyAtUL at @UL President's Research Excellence and Impact Awards.
Check out Ailish's research: pure.ul.ie/en/persons/ailish…
#ResearchImpact #StayCurious #ResearchAtUL
Nothing careful about recent budget. Just trying to buy the election from the electorate with their own money.
I’ll be on @rtenews 6.01 to discuss cost of living issues, how @FineGael in Govt has been working to address the issue and to provide for society as prices remain high. A strong economy delivered through careful management of our finances allows us to help in time of real need
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It wasn’t a mistake. It was a lack of knowledge, training and experience. If being a GP was easy everyone and anyone could be one - but there is nothing easy about it.
Paschal failed to ensure that recent budget addressed the important issues facing the country.
🚨Paschal Donohoe has launched a major attack on Fianna Fáil's manifesto questioning the credibility of certain tax raising measures #GE24
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Pearse Doherty won that row.
The absolute state of this ...
Jack Chambers & Hildegarde Naughten shouting over each other like they haven't been in government together for years.
#TonightVMTV #Ge24
I don’t know - presumably a ‘policy / protocol’ drafted by national ambulance service. However it is entirely illogical. An acutely ill patient who wishes to be admitted to a private hospital should in my view be entitled to transfer by ambulance if required.
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Public ambulances only transferring patients to ( overcrowded) public hospitals is illogical &ridiculous.
An acutely ill patient going to a private hospital is one patient less to public hospital. In present circumstances this can is a plus for those attending public hospitals
My sister fell very very ill on Sunday in Dungarvan She had been attending the Bons in Cork & the nearest ambulance to bring her there had to come from Dublin because it's a private hospital Public ambulances can only bring a person to a Public Hospital
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Dreadful but to be expected.
Patient 3:
👉🏽No recognition of decompensated HF
👉🏽Florid pulmonary oedema
👉🏽No regular medication prescribed
👉🏽Missed Antibiotic Rx
👉🏽Now in ITU
This was a snapshot of 2 days. I dread to think the scale of this danger. It’s not radical to expect universal expertise!
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Patrick O'Dwyer retweeted
You have failed the people of Middleton one year on from the last flooding shame on you for not doing enough for corkonions corkonions will give ye a kicking after the next election my fellow corkonions will not forget the treatment
