I listened with interest this morning as Mary Harney went on Morning Ireland to discuss the role she played in the controversy around the non-review of 57,000 X-rays at Tallaght hospital.Harney said that the protocol for dealing with a situation of malpractice follows;1.Ensure that the practice has stopped2.Ensure a speedy review takes place3.Inform patients of the malpractice4.Inform the publicWith RTE News (Radio 1, 8am) saying that up to 15,000 of the 57,000 patients had not been informed, what has Harney been doing? She had the time to inform all patients, given that the top brass in Tallaght knew all about this last summer.One person has died already and another is seriously ill partly due to misdiagnosis.Is this the smell of another political casualty in the... Similar posts

An investigation into services provided at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Ennis, Co. Clare has been announced by the Minister for Health, Mary Harney (photo left).The review of care at the hospital will be conducted by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) - another of the many faceless quangos created by Bertie Ahern - and will include "issues which arose from the misdiagnosis of the late Ann Moriarty and Edel Kelly", who both died earlier this year after being treated wrongly at the hospital in 2007."The purpose of the HIQA inquiry is to review patient services at the hospital with a particular reference to diagnosis and 'follow-up' of patients", the Minister said.The communications system inside the hospital will also come under review.Speaking in the Dáil,... Similar posts

Ok.. well where do I start?...............I have always been told that I have treatment resistant depression. You name the medication and I've tried it... I've got to the stage that I have to keep a big list of the meds I have tried so that my psychiatrist doesn't waste my time by trying meon something which has already not worked!Anyways..... I'm not your 'typical' depressed person or what my experience of depressed people has been like. My mood can fluctuate quite rapidly (often within a day) and although I do get great highs they are nowhere near as extreme as my lows (which usually require hospitalisation). Recently I have been reading articles which have suggested that a lot of those in my position may actually have bipolar disorder, or bipolar II to be more precise. Let me update... Similar posts