Sir, – I see that one in seven GPs and family practitioners are facing retirement (News, April 6th).
Are the other six in seven all in a time warp, or are they actually getting younger? – Yours, etc,
MUIRIS de BHULBH,
Cill Chóca,
Matt Williams: Take a deep breath and see how Sam Prendergast copes with big Fiji test
New Irish citizens: ‘I hear the racist and xenophobic slurs on the streets. Everything is blamed on immigrants’
Jack Reynor: ‘We were in two minds between eloping or going the whole hog but we got married in Wicklow with about 220 people’
‘I could have gone to California. At this rate, I probably would have raised about half a billion dollars’
Co Chill Dara.
Sir, – You report a national shortage of 2,000 GPs, and junior hospital doctors pressurised to do extra shifts, when already working unsafe and illegal hours.
How can this be when Ireland produces more medical graduates per head than anywhere else?
Over 70 per cent of doctors who started work here in 2022 were trained abroad, joining the 43 per cent on the Irish medical register who are international graduates.
The lack of foresight, administrative incompetence and evasion of responsibility in producing this situation – in what should be the best-doctored country in the world – is truly unsurpassable. – Yours, etc,
Dr JOHN DOHERTY,
Gaoth Dobhair,
Co Dhún na nGall.