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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery: Discussion (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: I presume there is a degree of time sensitivity as to whether one will survive a burn injury in terms of getting help.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery: Discussion (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: Does Ms Eadie have any concerns that sometimes a patient's survival is in danger of being compromised?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery: Discussion (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: That is one big message we need to take from today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery: Discussion (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: Is one of those companies VHI Healthcare?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery: Discussion (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: VHI Healthcare is a public-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery: Discussion (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: We cannot tell a private company what to do but VHI Healthcare has one shareholder who is the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: I welcome the our guests. I apologise for not being here for their presentations as I was a little over-booked for parts of the morning. Lyme disease is a very real and potentially very serious condition. I am not an expert in this area but having lived for many years in New York I was well aware of the people who had it. I had the tragic experience of seeing my closest professional...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: We all bring a variety of different life skills to the committee, but I am worried that some of the scientifically inexperienced members may have an understanding that somehow there is a consensus in Germany that is different from a consensus in Ireland. I can tell someone with a high degree of confidence what treatment one of my patients will get where, as happens, he or she goes for an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: Was the person who made the diagnosis in the case of Deputy Griffin's constituent the same person who benefited from the proceeds of the sale of the house?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: I am not going to withdraw the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: It is highly relevant as the suggestion was made that we should devote health service resources.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: I asked a question which has not been answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: On a point of information, I asked-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
John Crown: I want to ask Dr. Cryan whether any other mainstream professors would espouse the same methods suggested by the previous anonymous-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)
John Crown: Please accept my apologies for not being present at the beginning of the presentation. This is an extraordinarily cruel disease. The word "cruelty" repeatedly springs to mind. It is as if nature conspired to make something about as bad as it can be. One can only imagine the horror of most people on understanding that they have the disease and on seeing their future, both in terms of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)
John Crown: Is there a rough sense of how many patients there are in the entirely dependent stage of their management and where institutional care would be a reasonable option for them if home care were not available? Society should make the commitment to ensure someone was not asked to look after a family member without State support. Many of the carers in question may have other dependants at home...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)
John Crown: Can it be picked up in a blood test prenatally?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)
John Crown: Is there post-pregnancy prenatal testing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)
John Crown: There is CVS, so there is no blood test. One can do blood tests in-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)
John Crown: Do the witnesses have a position on whether it should be available? Is there a demand? Are patients asking for it?