Roddy Doyle nailed it. The unspoken aimlessness of middle aged man. His collection of short stories, “Bullfighting,” was frightening in its ordinariness, the drifting banality of a forgotten tribe. What […]
Domhnall MacAuley
Domhnall MacAuley: Enjoying exams
Waking to a hint of bacon frying as the morning sun slanted shadows on the croquet lawn outside. It was the day of the clinical examinations at the MSc in […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Palliative care
Dying is not much fun. As a GP I have seen a lot of it. Its not the very end bit that bothers me. The last breath is, paradoxically, often […]
Domhnall MacAuley: The day the brakes went on
The consortia dream screeched to a halt. As I watched breakfast TV in the airport lounge on my way to the GP forum, the controversial health reforms were unravelling. The […]
Domhnall MacAuley: primary care in Brazil
Five of his pregnant patients were dead. Three murdered by drug dealers when they couldn’t pay their bills and two killed by the police. A very different maternal mortality in […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Martin Roland in Belfast
Like it or loathe it, practice will never be the same. Constant data audit, screen reminders, and intrusive disease monitoring protocols have, undoubtedly, altered the consultation but, the Quality and […]
Domhnall MacAuley on sports medicine’s top ten
Sports medicine’s top ten. The keynote speaker had to drop out – could I give a talk about the top papers in 2010 at the UK sports and exercise medicine meeting […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Comprehensivists vs partialists at NAPCRG
Innovative primary care pilot programmes are big news in the US. Money talks, and from a business perspective, primary care is good value. So good, that Paul Grundy’s (US) company IBM […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Tops docs at NAPCRG
Britain’s top doctors. The headline caught my attention in the supplement to last Saturday’s “Times.” At a time when doctors seem under almost daily attack, it was good to see […]
Domhnall MacAuley on editors, journals, and Harry Potter
Paddington Bear was at the end of the platform. And, he is still there 15 years later as I travel through London on my way to the BMJ office – still […]