Cancer in a cold climate
Subtitle: the shafting of St Luke's Hospital
By: Enid O'Dowd
Publisher: Original Writing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781908024442; 9781908024008
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Cancer; Hospitals; Hospital closures; Prevention; Health and Fitness; St. Luke's Hospital (Dublin, Ireland); Health and fitness
Description: We are working towards developing one of the most advanced networks of radiation oncology in the world' National Cancer Control Programme press office But in a revealing chapter entitled Big business: behind the plan to close St Luke's, health analyst and contributor, Marie O'Connor, says: 'Cancer sufferers will soon be treated like commodities, sold off, in effect, to the lowest bidder'. This is the backdrop to Cancer in a Cold Climate, a book about the struggle to save St Luke's Hospital, a beacon of medical care and spiritual sustenance for cancer sufferers and their families for over ha.
Table of contents: title: I behind the plan to close st luke's; almost arrested; hollywood, harney and the rest; experts differ; how the campaign started; big business: behind the plan to close st luke's; ii life in st luke's: patient stories; iii the democratic process: going through the dail and seanad; td 'outs' himself as luke's patient; campaigners decline minister's coffee offer; 150,000 signatures ignored; into the seanad; party loyalty v patient welfare; president's signature fast tracked; iv life in st luke's: more patient stories; v best practice: no beds, no food; live from st luke's: the pat kenny show.; title: THE MYSTERY OF THE WEAFER REPORTBEST PRACTICE: NO BEDS, NO FOOD; PUTTING PATIENTS BEFORE POLITICS; APPENDICES; Passage of Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010; Expert Marks; Opposition party leaders letters; Letter from the President's office; Cancer statistics.