Emily O'Conor

“A patient waits for hours in an emergency department… and dies before being assessed.” Not rare. Not random. ED crowding is the visible end of hidden system failure. New CJEM commentary: How health systems learn to fail. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@anish_k_patel Moral injury.

She told me he was surprised to see her and said, “I thought Dr Patel would come”. I felt hollow. There is no tick box for continuity of care. 8/end

His name appears on the triage list again. A feeling of failing this man on some level comes over me. The contracts push me in a direction that goes against the family GP I want to be. There is no tick box for continuity of care. 1/n

@ross_prager Yep. Also had it described by paramedics.

I had patient in cardiac arrest who was receiving CPR and was mouthing "stop" only to have us stop and find he was asystolic but then wake up when we re-started compressions. Has anyone else encountered this? (We gave him sedation)

@MbarkCherguia Turnip

I’m currently having a blazing argument, please help me settle this once and for all. What is this???

@HeneghanHelen @WomenMedIreland @CzaraKennedy @SurgerySvhg @UCDMedicine Fab photo.

Proud of these wonderful ladies- the future of Irish Academic Surgery. @CzaraKennedy, Katherine Egan and Aimee Brennan, representing @SurgerySvhg & @UCDMedicine so well at the 2026 Sylvester O’Halloran meeting

@mccarthymt7 I too was that naive once.

I used to think that if you were polite, kind, thoughtful, clear and rational, that that would be enough to make it clear to those who have control over public healthcare resource allocation where to spend money to make things work better. It turns out that is not enough.

@mccarthymt7 @roinnslainte Yep. I’m in the gave up trying group.

I find it hard to believe that an @roinnslainte has good enough data to conclude that telling “the regions” to work harder is the right solution. There is no strategic service planning that measures the current demand on services, and the amount of resources allocated to meeting this demand. When frontline workers point out resource gaps, and are repeatedly told no resources are available, they eventually give up trying, understandably. To collect accurate performance metrics, you need a functional EHR, or an army of data managers. Honestly, if I had to choose between a data manager or an extra nurse, I would choose an extra nurse, every time. You have to cover the basics first ie deliver cancer treatments on time, before you start to do anything fancy e.g. hire someone to measure in real time how your department is failing to provide more data for a business case that will end up on the floor anyway because managers do not have access to resources.

@drlfarrell And the white teeth means they are American

Farrell's First Law: in any photograph of any medical meeting, the good-looking ones are always the drug reps

Why don't her fellow White House correspondents stand up for her? Why do reporters as a group tolerate these Trump attacks on their own members, especially female members? What happened to solidarity?

Every American needs to watch this:

"What do we do now?" In 2015, Reese Witherspoon lost it over this line “Do you know any woman in any crisis situation who has no idea what to do?”

This is a phenomenal read. Especially as we develope EPHR in Ireland @AssocEmergMedIE @HSELive linkedin.com/pulse/big-sick…

@fourhourtarget Really looking forward seeing it

@eoconor209 Ironically as it’s not in England yet I got my copy via an eBay account in Ireland… 👀

When is it coming to Ireland

This birth of FOAMED in Ireland

@Mubarak_mubious Worry

people who work in hęalthcare, fitness, nutrition or mental health, what’s one ‘quiet habit’ u see all the time that is secretly wrecking people’s long term health ??

@SlenderSherbet Shaken not stirred

"UNHAND ME WOMAN I'M LATE FOR WORK"

This week in ED I feel Flu levels stabilised. We’ll see what the data says. And when the second peak is expected…..

@Jindo_1307979 C

Which one..??

@manuukenya Sleep

Students of english what do we call that thing that comes out from our eye in the morning I'm tired of pretending.