Learning to distinguish the songs of different birds has been educational and a great deal of...

Telemedicine provides an insight into patients’ lives that was once only possible through the house call...

Ms Aisling Timoney, GP Lead Counsel with Medisec, examines the position in Irish law of adult...

As this editorial is being written, the rising number of Covid-19 cases, along with associated hospitalisations...

After a recent Covid diagnosis, I am grateful to have escaped with just a bad cold...

The level of vitriol of the anti-vax movement I witnessed in Canada was on a different...

Dr Gabrielle Pendlebury, Medico-Legal Consultant, and Ms Ceylan Simsek, Case Manager at Medical Protection,advise how to...

Recently, the National Clinical Programme in Surgery (NCPS) published a document, which looked at the effect...

Most of us will continue to be ‘guilty’ of hypocrisy as we spin the plates of...

A HSE decision to withhold payments to GPs poses a serious threat to the delivery of...

Ms Dee Duffy, Legal Counsel at Medisec, explains why gaining familiarity with the steps involved in...

In this issue of the Medical Independent, we look at the work the HSE has undertaken...