Doctor

There are no Ubers in the wilds of West Cork

22 March 2025 9:00 am

My American guest kept telling me he was going to call an Uber and I could not persuade him that…

My parents prefer the NHS to me

15 February 2025 9:00 am

The US marine left his long johns down the back of an armchair and the next guest complained that she…

Has the funeral director been sizing up the BB?

18 January 2025 9:00 am

The funeral director down the lane is also the local taxi service, which partly explains why I see him drive…

My parents and the sorry state of the NHS

4 May 2024 9:00 am

Pushing through a crowded hospital corridor behind my father, I heard a voice calling me. Then a nurse grabbed me…

The joy of Xanax

14 March 2020 9:00 am

The greater the enervation, it is said, the greater the appreciation of a work of art. There was no place…

The builder boyfriend has fallen off the roof – and still he won’t see a doctor

7 February 2020 10:00 pm

The builder boyfriend fell off a roof. He didn’t tell me until he could no longer leave unexplained why he…

Caption: Who is Mary Magdalene exactly?

The GP charged around to my side of the table and roved her hand all over my pubic area

28 November 2015 9:00 am

On Friday morning I was peeing razor blades so I rang up the doctor and was given an appointment after…

How your funeral director is ripping you off

16 May 2015 9:00 am

Funerals are a rip-off. But you can do something about that