A man who needs full-time care after suffering a stroke has secured a €1 million settlement against a Dublin hospital after alleging it failed to administer sufficient anti-platelet medication to him on time. Beaumont Hospital admitted in the High Court case that its failure to give this medication was beneath its expected standard of care. … Read more
After Taekwon-Do instructor Gerry Martin was told he had oesophageal cancer and was facing major surgery, he intuitively knew he needed to approach this health challenge as if it were an upcoming competition or grading. He reckoned the fitter he could be for the operation, logically the recovery should be easier. “I just thought I … Read more
When IT support consultant Justin Farrell heard his surgeon explain what an upcoming cancer operation would entail, he had visions of the closing scenes of Braveheart, where the Mel Gibson character, Scottish rebel William Wallace, is hanged, drawn and quartered. A touch of catastrophising perhaps – but there is no denying that the removal of … Read more
The father of a 22-year-old woman who was hit by a car last October while she was out for a run in Sicily has paid tribute to his “fighter” of a daughter who was on two occasions expected not to survive her severe injuries. Law graduate Hannah Leonard from Bray, Co Wicklow, moved to Sicily … Read more
Medics here have warned of increasing presentations to Irish hospitals due to complications from the rise in overseas bariatric and cosmetic tourism. The medics have sounded their warning in a paper in the new edition of the Irish Medical Journal (IMJ) which focuses on the case of a 21-year-old woman who suffered a rare splenic … Read more