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  • Jennifer O'Dea: Quick correction, in the above comment it mentions that a vector for Lyme disease would be an insect - usually it is a tick which is not an insect but part of the spiders & mites family! The... (3 December 2013)
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  • Catherine Mills: The HSE have staff who work as social workers, psychologists, family therapists and psychiatrists- yet the employee in question is not registered with any of them.? (31 May 2010)
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  • Catherine Mills: Sounds like Common Purpose graduates are ousting the minister. (31 May 2010)
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  • Michael Fitzalan Way: Search and Rescue professionals are the first to assert the need for intervention at the earliest possible moment - lives can be saved or lost in an instant - if the frontline experts are... (25 March 2010)
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  • John Handelaar: Close, but not entirely correct: A vector in this context is any living carrier of a disease. In the case of Lyme's it would be an insect, but it could also be - for example - a domestic cat,... (23 October 2009)
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  • Peter McMahon: The medical evidence re. stabilising a trauma victim as soon as possible refers to stabilisation in a hospital setting and not by paramedics along the roadside. Research has shown that your... (30 July 2009)
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  • Peter McMahon: The glossy publication from the HSE, advising the public as to the type of injury which would be treated in Monaghan and those which would require the patient/victim to go instead to... (30 July 2009)
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  • Peter McMahon: The Minor Injuries Unit can treat 'cuts and grazes', 'bites and stings'. However you cannot go there with injuries sustained from a 'fall from any height', even, we presume, if those injuries are... (29 July 2009)
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  • Peter McMahon: The times for diagnostics in Monaghan were better than those achieved by the MAU especially when you count the travel time for Monaghan patients. The introduction of an 'Admissions Lounge' and... (29 July 2009)
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  • Peter McMahon: The Teamwork Report was making recommendations on the assumption that there would be a new Regional Hospital for the North East. They also assumed that their recommendations came as a package,... (29 July 2009)
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