The Big Lie
Once upon a time, there were too few people and too many hospital beds, writes Dr Garrett FitzGerald So, they cut the beds and other services. The post The Big Lie appeared first on Irish Medical Times.
View ArticleTime machine on steroids
There’s a lot to be said for saying more devotions The post Time machine on steroids appeared first on Irish Medical Times.
View ArticleReflections of a young man in medicine in the dim and distant past – another...
Back in the day, being a junior doctor in a hospital was perhaps even worse than it is today. The post Reflections of a young man in medicine in the dim and distant past – another country appeared...
View ArticleAn elevating tale of Napoleonic ambition
Does shrinkage have anything to do with it? Dr Garrett FitzGerald sizes up his options during his retreat from Moscow I have always maintained that any Napoleonic tendencies which I possess have...
View ArticleA rough guide to modern politics in 2022
Dr Garrett FitzGerald shares his wisdom on the political system and how political grifters are milking the idea of victims for their own ends It’s difficult to get through a medical career without...
View ArticlePost-pandemic prefrontal paralysis plague
Our hero could have gone to Paris or Rome, or to see the great treasures of the Acropolis. The post Post-pandemic prefrontal paralysis plague appeared first on Irish Medical Times.
View ArticleThe art of dealing with development issues
He’s had his fair share of patients over the years, but now Dr Garrett FitzGerald gives some insight into the overbearing, the unbalanced, and the plain dishonest His assistant had telephoned for a...
View ArticleTuberculosis stalked the land and in the year of the ‘T’, Thucydides made...
Noble warrior and student of Greek history Dr Garrett FitzGerald recalls the Year of the ‘T’ – which is not a reference to either Tipperary or his much-esteemed editor, but a reference to an obscure...
View ArticleThe mirrors of the soul
Dr Garrett FitzGerald has his sights on a cup of coffee – and possibly a chat – but fails to make any eye contact Some of the old clinical signs learned in life and in medical school are no longer of...
View ArticleIt’s a long way from Sláintecare to here
The maths show Dr Garrett FitzGerald that Sláintecare is not going to work – the figures just don’t add up I have a wardrobe full of t-shirts which are memorials to the big plans for reform of the...
View ArticlePlaying handball against haystacks
The more he thought about it, the more that it rolled around his brain, the more Dr Garrett FitzGerald realised that it was true. The post Playing handball against haystacks appeared first on Irish...
View ArticleThe 1950s were so different they might as well be on another planet
Never a great fan of entering the wooden box, Dr Garrett FitzGerald recalls his youth in Tipperary and the confessions of sin that were such a part of life on that far and distant planet ‘Roma’ – where...
View ArticleOur correspondent survives the mad dog Kelly and howling at the moon
It’s been a struggle during the pandemic but Dr Garrett FitzGerald survived with his dog through the proximity of a rugby club. The post Our correspondent survives the mad dog Kelly and howling at the...
View ArticleThe Homes of Tipperary: where many medics learned skills such as smoking
Dr Garrett FitzGerald reflects on nursing homes of the past – and the prevalence of smoking among nurses. The post The Homes of Tipperary: where many medics learned skills such as smoking appeared...
View ArticleConsiderations of what lies beyond
Writing from the other side of his medical profession, Dr Garrett FitzGerald meditates upon the life-to-come beyond death and finds he is not as enlightened on the afterlife as Groucho Marx The post...
View ArticleThe return of the prodigal son was greeted with a great celebration!
Dr Garrett FitzGerald appears – as if back from the dead – to write for Irish Medical Times once more. The post The return of the prodigal son was greeted with a great celebration! appeared first on...
View ArticleThe heady days of the Herr Professor
Dr Garrett FitzGerald recalls the revered professors of old, then thought of as super humans, and how questioning them was considered the equivalent of challenging a ‘god’ This story continues at The...
View ArticleNot being Ted McGrath
Now on the other side, Dr Garrett FitzGerald recounts bravely facing the ordeal that was his pre-med year, notwithstanding the air of gloom that abounded This story continues at Not being Ted McGrath...
View ArticleMinister for Health’s unexpected contact with reality
The solution to the inevitable slide of the acute services has finally been put on the table, but does the ‘Golden Rule’ still hold sway, wonders Dr Garrett FitzGerald This story continues at Minister...
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The good old days…
Dr Garrett FitzGerald Dr Garrett FitzGerald recalls a 14-month residency in the Children’s Sanatorium in Foynes, Co Limerick, and how not making a sound, eating up all one’s food and staying in bed 24...
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