Laura O'Doherty

Doctor, likes talking, global health, universal healthcare, infectious diseases, Gaeilge and memes, sí/í 🇮🇪 🌍🦟

[Doctors for Universal Healthcare @DoctorsForUHC]

Are you a registered medical professional and interested in #UniversalHeathcare #UHC? Please come to our online meeting this Wednesday (13th November) at 6pm. See details below!

[Domhnall McGlacken-Byrne @McGlackenByrne]

Here's an article I wrote about Irishness.

'Some voices loudly claim that Irishness is about place & blood & that it is under attack. They are lying. The way to protect our Irishness is by staying true to those values we wish to define us as a society.'

https://t.co/xvAF5aPK7k

[Laura O'Doherty @LauraODoherty]

Thinking of the doctors this week starting a new job, in a new hospital, in a new home with people they just met on Sunday night, away from their partner, children and wider support network 😔

Great letter 👌 @IMO_IRL

[Laura O'Doherty @LauraODoherty]

Great to see @SouthAfricanAS talk on AMS/new abs in LMICs.
You don't need an antibiotic script to show your boss you need sick leave!
POC testing reduces diagnostic uncertainty and so abs prescribing in all settings
🦠🧫 😷 @ESCMID

[Laura O'Doherty @LauraODoherty]

https://t.co/JXZxK22fcZ Rip Tojo x

[Laura O'Doherty @LauraODoherty]

@TheRestHistory loved the latest podcast on monkeys. Sadly absent was Cork's Tojo, the US WWII monkey who crash landed in Clonakilty and who's untimely rum fuelled death led to a wake in a local hotel and a funeral with full military honours 🐒 @dcsandbrook
@holland_tom

[Laura O'Doherty @LauraODoherty]

Our Sudanese medical colleagues are caring for us, our relatives and friends in Ireland while their own parents and families are in danger at home. I support them being able to bring their families to safety in Ireland.

https://t.co/ChUSPGF8h2

[Laura O'Doherty @LauraODoherty]

Always good when a study shows something and people say hmm really?? 🤔
And then 💥 a perfect letter, as if made in a lab, to illustrate the rotted, old boys club culture of medicine ❄️❄️

[Dr Liz O'Riordan @Liz_ORiordan]

I have no words. Thanks to the
@thetimes who led with the story about 1/3 female surgeons being sexually harassed, even raped, at work, for
publishing this letter from an anaesthetist saying we should expect it!!
This is why it is still goes on
@wpsms_org @RCoANews

Bullying should not happen. Sexual harassment is a criminal offence NOT a routine part of medical training

[Laura O'Doherty @LauraODoherty]

Thinking of my Sudanese medical colleagues and their families in Khartoum❣️🙏

There are over 700 Sudanese doctors working in Ireland, minding us/our families each day 🇸🇩

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Sudan's warring generals have agreed to a three-day ceasefire after previous bids to pause the conflict quickly disintegrated https://t.co/1yLFSvipRg

[Laura O'Doherty @LauraODoherty]

33 healthcare workers died in their workplace in Ukraine, almost 300 ambulances stolen, difficulties of delivering care in war, presentation by Maryna Railian, Kharkiv @ECCMID

[Laura O'Doherty @LauraODoherty]

Listening to @SiobhanQuirke1 presenting on the infectious diseases care needs of Ukrainian refugees in Galway @ECCMID 🇺🇦

[Laura O'Doherty @LauraODoherty]

Dr Tetyana Chumachenko, presenter and epidemiologist from Kharkiv, Ukraine, tells us the best way to support our medical colleagues in infectious diseases in the Ukraine is to support an end to the war 🇺🇦

[Mater Infectious Diseases Nursing @NursingMat90307]

World TB day MMUH #EndTB

[Dr. Conall Ó Fátharta @ococonuts]

This. The research has been clear on this for years.

https://t.co/VMqhCJU831

[Laura O'Doherty @LauraODoherty]

🎉 4th most read ! 📚
I'd like to thank my mum for reading it no less than 499 times or so

@ClionaNi @THKC1 ✨

[HRB Open Research @HRBOpenRes]

Coming in at No.4 on our 2022 most-read list is a Study Protocol from @LauraODoherty et al. with over 500 views, introducing the @stjamesdublin, Tallaght University Hospital, and @tcddublin Allied Researchers (STTAR) COVID-19 Bioresource: https://t.co/KpllSSAqp8

[Laura O'Doherty @LauraODoherty]

@ChristineCeili Also to suggest this on changeover weekend where half of Nchds are moving across the country to start in a new hospital on Monday 😣⚠️

[Mark Murphy @drmarkmurphy]

Two great letters, one from Dr Chris Fitzpatrick, another from a woman who is paying for private antenatal care, responding to the concerns expressed by two Masters about the new consultant contracts:

Two-tier system of maternity care

@DoctorsForUHC

https://t.co/1mOcPoCCHA

[Dr Gabriel Scally @GabrielScally]

A very thoughtful and well argued opinion piece. Ireland is such an outlier. I remember jaws dropping in an interview panel in Ireland when I stated I was in favour of universal healthcare free at point of access. Such a heretical viewpoint! @McGlackenByrne

[Eileen O Connor @eileenfoc]

#WorldAIDSDay @ChristineCeili opening talk on the scientific advances in treatment of HIV and ending HIV pandemic globally #UequalsU #PREP @HIVIreland @MaterTrauma @MaterNursing

[Niamh Conlon @ns_conlon]

I wrote this piece on a topic that, in my experience, is thought about a lot more than it is talked about.
Hopefully this might be a small step towards changing that. @IMO_IRL @irishexaminer

https://t.co/vdDsyMWuM1