Mayo GP Oliver White lashed out at “quackery’’ and “pseudo-scientists” who were promoting complementary medicines. He said anyone could come up with a concoction and find someone who claimed to be cured by it a few weeks later and he…
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Doctors differ on treatment by ‘quackery’
Tagged with: Complementary medicine
Posted in Bernard Ruane (GP), Doctors, Oliver White (GP), Paul McKeown
Posted in Bernard Ruane (GP), Doctors, Oliver White (GP), Paul McKeown
Review to examine IMO during ex-chief’s tenure
IMO president Dr Paul McKeown said since the settlement was reached Mr McNeice “had come back looking for further elements”. (Times) >
Posted in Doctors, Paul McKeown
77 doctors quit IMO since ex-chief’s pay package revealed
The controversy surrounding the remuneration for the former chief executive of the Irish Medical Organisation, George McNeice, has been “shocking and convulsing”, the president of the doctors’ trade union, Paul McKeown, has said. Dr McKeown said 77 doctors had left the…
Troubled doctors’ group to cut rates
SUBSCRIPTIONS paid by doctors who are members of the troubled Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) are expected to be cut amid growing discontent and threats of an exodus. IMO president Dr Paul McKeown has written to the union’s 5,000 members saying…
Tagged with: Irish Medical Organisation
Posted in Doctors, Eamonn Shanahan (GP), John Casey (GP), Paul McKeown
Posted in Doctors, Eamonn Shanahan (GP), John Casey (GP), Paul McKeown
Hospitals still limiting visiting after surge in norovirus cases
Dr Paul McKeown, a specialist in public health medicine, said there were several reports of outbreaks affecting hospitals, nursing homes and hotels. “There is no specific treatment for norovirus apart from sipping plenty of clear fluids such as water or…
Thousands are falling ill as winter bug sweeps country
The highly infectious winter vomiting bug has led to a big rise in patients calling out their GPs and has hit hotel residents as well as several hospitals and nursing homes. Dr Paul McKeown of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre…
800 NCHDs have written to Minister for Health James Reilly
More than 800 non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) have written to Minister for Health James Reilly warning they may be forced to seek work abroad due to the Minister’s policies on consultants. Symbolic flight boarding passes were signed by the doctors…
Tagged with: Contracts, Irish Medical Organisation, NCHDs
Posted in Doctors, Mark Murphy, Paul McKeown
Posted in Doctors, Mark Murphy, Paul McKeown
Paul McKeown: Irish medical staff ‘not among best paid’
“Medical specialists, general practitioners, community doctors and non-consultant hospital doctors have taken their public service pay cuts along with the rest of the public sector and are prepared to do what is necessary to see our country returned to financial…
Tagged with: Irish Medical Organisation, Medical card, Pay
Posted in Doctors, Ken Egan (GP), Martin Daly, Paul McKeown
Posted in Doctors, Ken Egan (GP), Martin Daly, Paul McKeown
Minister for public health ‘needed to address inequality’
New Irish Medical Organisation president, Dr Paul McKeown, made the call after a litany of life-shortening problems affecting the poorest people in society were revealed by expert speakers. Meanwhile, the outgoing president of the IMO, Cork-based GP Dr Ronan Boland,…
Doctors want patients transferred to wards as emergency units reach limit
Emergency medicine consultant at Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital Dr Peadar Gilligan, speaking at the annual conference of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) in Killarney yesterday, said while there had been agreement at HSE level on the use of such “full-capacity protocols”,…
