Posts by Ronan Kavanagh
Quarantine
Headlines today: PANDEMIC! UNHEARD! UNSEEN! A NEW WORLD ORDER TO BE SPENT IN QUARANTINE. The tears, the fears, the lost careers, A new crisis, we must shift the gears Into a life less ordinary. A life of less – that’s for sure. It all seems ugly, It lacks Grace, And it lacks…
Read MoreMedCurious Edition 2
We have included a comic psychiatrist, a poetic obstetrician, a cartooning palliative care doctor, a few medical story tellers, an invitation to sing, and a timely celebration of an influential, and well – loved giant of Irish general practice.
Read More“Labore est Orare” (Requiem for a Betty) by Dr. Matthew Shipsey
Elizabeth, Or Betty, as I knew her, died on October 11, 2018. This was my seventh day working as a hospital doctor, a trivial fact in the context of the ninety-odd years that she had lived. So here’s a more salient one: She died that day surrounded by her six children; children who, according…
Read MoreDodder Walk at Dusk during the time of Covid-19 by Chris Fitzpatrick
Dodder Walk at Dusk during the time of Covid-19 by Professor Chris Fitzpatrick
Read MoreMedCurious Edition 1
MedCurious is a newsletter of medical curiosity – of the sorts of things that people who like dotMD might find interesting. Something to keep you going between dotMD events. This edition includes a mix-tape, a story, an article, news about a new book, and a link to an infamous dotMD interview. If you have something…
Read MoredotMD 2019 now online!
We are delighted to announce that all of the recorded content from dotMD 2019 is now available online.
Read MoredotMD News update regarding 2020
This is just to let you know that we have decided to take a break for 2020 – so the proposed dotMD meeting in Sept 2020 will not take place as announced. This is to give us time to recover from 2019 and to prepare the best possible experience for our delegates for the next…
Read MoreGraphic Medicine Exhibition at dotMD Festival
Although this years dotMD meeting is sold out (waiting list here), this year’s Festival of Medical Curiosity, will feature an exhibition of Graphic Medicine which is open to all. The exhibition should be of interest to anyone with an interest in health or the humanities. The exhibition will be open for viewing on the concourse…
Read MoredotMD made Symplur
We are delighted to have our friends from Symplur to help us out with social media analytics at this years dotMD conference. Social media chatter about the conference is beginning to warm up! Here’s an example of what Symplur Live (which is part of their Symplur Signals suite) can do – it will be available…
Read MoredotMD Student Scholars Announced
With only 35 days to go until dotMD, we are thrilled to announce the 2019 dotMD Student Scholars. We are proud to partner with Boston Scientific Ireland to enable ten medical students to attend the festival of medical curiosity this September. This year, we received fifty outstanding applications from across Ireland. We would like to…
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