Over the past two issues of the Medical Independent, we have devoted significant coverage to the...

Dr James Lucas, Medico-legal Consultant at Medical Protection, explains the common dilemmas faced by doctors when...

Awareness weeks play an important role in increasing the public’s knowledge of a particular disease or...

Health services rely on doctors from overseas, yet this reliance is not often acknowledged by those...

Dr Pat Harrold writes that a doctor’s life is full of dawns and departures There comes...

Dr Lucia Gannon gives an account of how writing a book has provided her with a...

What is Sláintecare? Is it the first report launched in May 2017? Or is it the...

Prof Brendan Kelly responds to George Winter’s recent column on psychiatry and defends the discipline from...

Dr Christine O’Malley says the most important factor in choosing a consultant is how good they...

Prof Seamus O’Mahony argues that older doctors should be relieved of on-call and acute duties to...

The placebo effect remains an ‘incontrovertible part’ of what clinicians see on a daily basis and...

Regulation is tricky. On the one hand, standards should be idealistic and be a benchmark for...