Michelle O'Connor

GP, mom of boys plus boy dog, cannot bear ignorance, greed or social injustice, doing my best but probably failing miserably 😅. Opinions expressed are my own.

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@Charles18686758 @rtenews My sons school meals were dreadful, same thing as microwave meals which are high in salt, high in fat and high in calories. Also a relatively well off area where people can afford to send a packed lunch. If something becomes universal, it becomes cost driven and quality suffers.

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@Dublinmarti @rtenews To drown out Burke, so he wouldn't get air time

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@rtenews So he blocks them from admitting foreign students but now wants to be fair re race?????

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@Emerald87780831 @rtenews He's irish!

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@drbosheaGP @IMT_latest And yet, not always easy to get people to engage as I have discovered. Have been shut down when I've brought this up with family and friends.

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

US President Donald Trump's nominee for Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has secured enough votes from senators to be confirmed as the country's top health official https://t.co/r4It5psUeg

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

Report finds postcode divide in survival rates for many cancers. Yet again, the Mid-West is at the bottom of the table. Not good enough @SimonHarrisTD @NiallCollinsTD @DonnellyStephen https://t.co/k4Dbxwu4hv

[illona duffy @illonaduffy]

Medication shortages escalating.
No dissolvable prednesol available for managing asthma and wheeze exaccerbations. Betnesol unlicensed, so costly + also not easily available.
No Lyclear for scabies.
Problems with steroid creams, antibiotics + much more
@CcoHse @SimonHarrisTD

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@Madser2002 Undoubtedly one of the most odious yokes on social media. Cannot understand how he hasn't been banned from everything

[William Behan 🍉 @DrWilliamBehan]

Simulated GP clinic closure: effects on patient access in the Irish Mid-West https://t.co/9IoGbBIMqB by @mike0callaghan, @LiamGGlynn and colleagues:
Rural communities will be, on average, more adversely affected should their local GP clinic close.

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@DrWilliamBehan @mike0callaghan @LiamGGlynn No surprises there

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@joesnap11 @Independent_ie Bull! Only 14.9% of people in Irish Prisons are non-Irish.

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@Rheum2improve Or called to A&E to see a patient with years of problems. They can find file 1 and 2 (last entry 1990) and volume 4 (which has entries from 2000-2005 and a random one from 2012 but no volume 3, 5 and 6.... regularly happened

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@ritakj Very worrying. Usually taken as given that once hospice is involved, A&E is no longer an option.

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@Rheum2improve @Primark Tesco are usually open to local stuff like that with their "blue token" scheme. Local supervalu also

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@Madser2002 @NormaFoleyTD1 @SERPInstIRL I disagree. I feel the teacher is exaggerating minor aspects of the curriculum for the sake of drama. Porn happens. Young teenagers access it everyday leading to unreasonable expectations later in life. If it is brought into the classroom, we can teach that this is not real life.

[Brendan Payne @Brendan01428975]

Real protection..✊

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@illonaduffy @DonnellyStephen Hydrocortisone and zovirax creams also no longer covered. Nursing homes having issues with stuff like this as well, families unable to pay for extras.

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@CatherineODono7 @illonaduffy @HSELive @BernardGloster @DonnellyStephen @HSEDubNorthEast Of course it would but this way they get GPs to take responsibility and when we try to complain, we can't because no one had the cojones to sign the letter. HSE abdicating responsibility as usual.

[Michelle O'Connor @DrSpock2010]

@tattoodlebug They're way too quiet to be safe. Should have bells like bikes.