Agree Michael. No backfill for maternity or paternity or parental leave. Service and patients suffer.

In a UK military first, Army paratroopers staged through Ascension Island before jumping onto Britain's most remote territory to deliver emergency Hantavirus support to Tristan da Cunha.

In 2025, 190 people died as a result of incidents on Irish roads and the trajectory so far for 2026 indicates that we are likely to exceed that figure. IAEM endorses the five key demands set out by stoproaddeaths.ie - read more at bit.ly/4t8xiOc

A stretcher in a hallway is not a hospital bed. The wrenching story of my dying husband’s last days. For @TheAtlantic and @KFFHealthNews theatlantic.com/health/2026/…

Fawning focus on the Artemis II mission reveals a disturbing arrogance irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Both friends of @AssocEmergMedIE. Enjoy retirement @FfionDavies4

“A patient waits for hours in an emergency department… and dies before being assessed.” Not rare. Not random. ED crowding is the visible end of hidden system failure. New CJEM commentary: How health systems learn to fail. link.springer.com/article/10…

Why don't her fellow White House correspondents stand up for her? Why do reporters as a group tolerate these Trump attacks on their own members, especially female members? What happened to solidarity?

Every American needs to watch this:

"What do we do now?" In 2015, Reese Witherspoon lost it over this line “Do you know any woman in any crisis situation who has no idea what to do?”

This is a phenomenal read. Especially as we develope EPHR in Ireland @AssocEmergMedIE @HSELive linkedin.com/pulse/big-sick-…

This birth of FOAMED in Ireland

When is it coming to Ireland

This week in ED I feel Flu levels stabilised. We’ll see what the data says. And when the second peak is expected…..

Also seeing a significant amount of myocarditis and stroke likely associated with Flu this year.

I am shocked and horrified by what I witnessed at a New York City hospital yesterday. Suffering patients packed like sardines in the emergency room hallways. A severely exhausted woman vomiting violently, with other patients just inches away from her. She stayed there for hours, undergoing her full exams in front of everyone. A patient with blunt trauma to the face, swollen and in pain, lying in a gurney at the edge of the hallway as people rushed back and forth past them. An injured woman in her 90s, dazed, confused - being examined by doctors while surrounded on all sides by strangers and sick people. Nurses and doctors with no choice but to have people’s most private conversations right there in the open. We all learned about one man’s Crohn’s disease, and exactly where on his body he had rashes. We heard a woman’s entire history of neurological issues. A man discussed his STDs out loud. Patients were told they needed to be admitted, but there were no available rooms. Not today. Hopefully tomorrow. So they stayed in that overcrowded room, packed in as far as you could see, forced to suffer in that environment with no idea how many more hours they’d be there, many trying to sleep sitting upright in a chair, with no bed. Dignity? Nowhere to be found. And then something happened that I will never forget for the rest of my life. A doctor approached a woman who was having cognitive issues and told her that her imaging had revealed a tumor in her brain. “I believe in being very truthful, and to let the prayers and the planning with your doctors begin as soon as possible." I was standing three feet away, and turned away as I started to cry. That woman did not deserve to have a room full of strangers witness the worst moment of her life. Yet amid absolutely inhuman chaos, the shining light was the doctors, nurses, and hospital staff. Overworked, exhausted, stretched past anything reasonable - yet still taking their time to make each patient feel as dignified and cared for as possible in an impossible scene. I know they themselves are shocked by the situation they’ve been forced into, but you’d never know it. The level of love they showed, the professionalism, the humanity in the middle of all that suffering… These men and women are the best of America - and we’ve put them in environments that are truly incomprehensible. I kept thinking about how we possibly got here. How has this become the norm in America? I kept thinking about how many freedoms we’re afforded in this country. How many luxuries we’ve built. How good life can be here. And yet when it comes to what matters most, our healthcare, the thing we absolutely need to be there for us at our most vulnerable, it feels broken beyond repair. I don’t know whose fault this is, and I don’t know what the solution might be, or if there is even one at this point. On this particular day, I was just accompanying someone, only five hours in that environment. But to the doctors, nurses, hospital workers, and the patients who have to live this reality, all I can say is: I’m sorry. You deserve better. We all deserve better.

❗️⚠️🇪🇸 - Catalonia, Spain, is grappling with a severe early flu surge that's overwhelming hospitals. Beds are lining corridors, and patients face up to three-day waits for admission. As of early December 2025, the region has entered accelerated flu transmission, with cases doubling weekly and an incidence rate of 164 per 100,000. The dominant strain is a highly transmissible H3N2 subtype. Hospitalizations are rising sharply, especially among those over 60, while most infections are now in children and young adults. Masks are now mandatory in hospitals and nursing homes. The peak is expected mid-to-late December, coinciding with holiday gatherings. Health officials urge immediate vaccination, especially for vulnerable groups, along with hand hygiene and avoiding crowds.

Naming things after people is always problematic. If we’re going to start renaming everything, we should dename Ireland irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/…

Flu flu flu☹️☹️☹️

This is like me on my saddle stool after I injured my ankle