Suzanne

Nominated for An Post Irish Book Awards 🎉

Listener’s Choice Category ♥️

This means so much for the wonderful world of #PedsICU patients, families & colleagues

Vote early and often!
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Suzanne Crowe: Disappointing budget shows industry is being prioritised over living with dignity and care The budget was universally disappointing for caregivers. From the young to the very old, and for those engaged in meeting the needs of everyone in between, there was little to applaud.

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Let’s GO!

Day 1 and ‘Intensive Care’ is in bookstores

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Suzanne Crowe: Doctors, just like everybody else, must be held to account for their decisions One of the first times I felt the sting of accountability was when I sent a patient out of the ICU at night. We needed an ICU bed urgently for someone else. Earlier that evening, we had identified whi...

Being answerable is a good thing

All public servants must be accountable,
especially in healthcare

#accountability

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Suzanne Crowe: Doctors, just like everybody else, must be held to account for their decisions

If you like medical memoirs…

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Kathy Sheridan: Refusing to see the links between domestic violence and wider eruptions in society amount to reckless denial Abuse in the home is a red flag for what happens in the public space

Refusing to see the links between domestic violence and wider society amount to reckless denial

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Dr Morgan McMonagle: As a surgeon in Ireland, I had never seen “wounded child, no surviving family” on a hospital chart A former colleague in Gaza is getting his children to lick salt before bed to stave off the hunger pangs. Even last spring, children were eating weeds and grass

An Irish surgeon in Gaza: I have seen tiny bodies ripped apart, children eating grass

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Child poverty: One-parent families are acting as shock absorbers for failed policies

As patients and staff we exist in a state of hopeless hopefulness

Suzanne Crowe: Level of churn at the top of the HSE is unsettling for all

The Guardian view on the children of Gaza: when 17,000 die, it’s more than a mistake | Editorial Editorial: Israel’s military blamed the deaths of six Palestinian children on Sunday on a technical error. But a staggering toll continues to mount

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My magnificent daughter didn’t hesitate to speak about their experience to raise awareness of how an ally can help

#ProudToBeAnAlly

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'The more people are vaccinated against diphtheria the easier it is to stop outbreaks and to prevent future ones.'

Report on the first #outbreak of respiratory #diphtheria caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae with local transmission in Germany in 40 years

#EpiSky #IDSky #MedSky #PublicHealth 🦠🧪

I’m a bit late to this but what a wonderful book!

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

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#PedsICU is the most special & privileged work there is ♥️

My life is woven with the stories of children & families I have cared deeply about in ‘Intensive Care’

Our shared humanity

published Aug 28 by a super team @HachetteIre & @ConorNagle

Preorder: kennys.ie/shop/intensive…

What’s missing from the perfect child-friendly summer? Generous public spaces | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett Having a child makes you see cities differently. We deserve better than shuttered playgrounds and locked paddling pools, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

True for cities in Ireland too

Very few public safe spaces for children to play and young people hang out

Phoenix Park is Dublin’s best offering
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Calculating the Damage of Vaccine Skepticism It’s clear that we’re on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. But how bad will it get?

This!

“The U.S. may be doing more than simply failing to aid global vaccination efforts. The domestic stoking of anti-vaccine sentiment is itself infectious”

www.newyorker.com/science/elem...

Iconic! And like the best rock bands, he’s a hard act to follow

I’ve just bought The Body for my 12 yo son - I’m kinda jealous he gets to start a whole reading journey in the company of the King 👑

"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot."

— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

The complexity of chaperoning   - Medical Independent The use of chaperones for intimate examinations can present ethical and practical dilemmas. I can recall standing in an outpatient...

Recently i was chatting with my two young adult daughters about seeing a doctor - they had no idea they could ask for a chaperone to be present for an intimate examination

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Dr Suzanne Crowe: FemTech can fight medical misogyny — but not if it’s going to be used to monitor us FemTech is here to stay. We must ensure the hand guiding its use is an ethical one, writes Dr Suzanne Crowe, President of the Medical Council

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

If you would accept an organ transplant because you needed one…you should carry an organ donor card

It is part of the circle of giving ❤️

As 600 people wait for a transplant, why is there concern new law may not lead to more organ donations?

Gaza's health system 'collapsing' as Israel plans to block access to two major hospitals

#NotATarget

Written by Irish GP Claire Gleeson, this is a brilliant read!
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Suzanne Crowe: Sadly, even after Susie Long’s story was told in 2007, we still need a Joe Duffy to expose healthcare inequalities It was a “who could forget where they were?” moment. I wouldn’t usually catch afternoon radio, but on a bleak winter’s day in 2007, I was on maternity leave. Sitting in the kitchen, cradling my new da...

Health inequalities are political

Why do we still need a Joe Duffy to call that out?

www.independent.ie/opinion/comm... Suzanne Crowe: Sadly, even after Susie Long’s story was told in 2007, we still need a Joe Duffy to expose healthcare inequalities

Diary of a Gazan family’s descent toward starvation Widowed mother of nine Mervat Hijazi (38), living in a Gaza City tent, says she feels ‘ashamed’ for not being able to feed her children

Diary of a Gazan family’s descent toward starvation

And T cells that know when it’s time to go home

Policing bathroom use harms us all
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Last two functioning hospitals in Gaza are now surrounded by Israeli forces Two of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals have been encircled by Israeli troops, preventing anyone from leaving or entering the facilities, hospital staff and aid groups said this week, as Isr...

#HealthcareIsNotaTarget

www.independent.ie/world-news/m... Last two functioning hospitals in Gaza are now surrounded by Israeli forces

UN warns thousands of babies in Gaza could die in next 24 hours without aid as Israeli air strikes kill at least 50 people Tuesday’s fatalities bring toll to more than 500 people in last eight days since Israeli military campaign intensified

UN warns thousands of babies in Gaza could die in next 24 hours without aid as Israeli air strikes kill at least 50 people

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