health

Tallaght Hospital — No X-Rays, No Letters, Please

Mar 11th, 2010 | By Bock | Category: Favourites, health

How does a hospital miss 58,000 x-rays and 30,000 letters?



Having a Baby in Ireland – Symphisiotomy and Other Horrors

Feb 23rd, 2010 | By Mairead | Category: health

Butchery of women for the convenience of priests and doctors



Mass Homeopathy Overdose Protest

Feb 11th, 2010 | By Bock | Category: Quasi-medicine

Water’s for drinking and swimming in.



Quasi-Medicine Qualifications and Accreditation

Jan 23rd, 2010 | By Bock | Category: Quasi-medicine

Regulating quacks



Medical Consultants — Grasping, Greedy, Lazy, and Cynical

Jan 17th, 2010 | By Mairead | Category: health

Big bucks for bad treatment



Swine Flu Bonanza

Jan 12th, 2010 | By Seconds Out | Category: health

Cashing in on pandemic scares



When Is A Treatment Not A Treatment? When It’s A Thought Field Therapy

Nov 7th, 2009 | By Bock | Category: Quasi-medicine

More quasi-medical horse-shit



Scientific Drugs Adviser Sacked For Advising On Drugs. Scientifically

Nov 4th, 2009 | By Bock | Category: Politics, health

Irrational policy on controlling illegal drugs doomed to fail.



Coiscéim Eile Lokomat Appeal

Jul 4th, 2009 | By Bock | Category: health

Fundraising effort by local community



Bock Injured

May 19th, 2009 | By Bock | Category: health

I fell hard and hurt myself.
Normally I’m very good at these things.  If I trip over something I can usually skip out of the way, but not tonight.
No indeed, not tonight.
I was just having a quick look to make sure that the boiler was switched off, so I slipped to  the side of the house, [...]