In the Irish Health service, it is up to the patient to make the space-time continuum between the then of the appointment and the now of the pain work
Orla Tinsley
Orla Tinsley columns
As anyone with a chronic illness knows, hospital is not a holiday, it’s more of a gladiator match
Here I am swimming around in death, and hope and transplant, but something gloriously gloomy is already afoot
The irony is, before I was diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease, I mostly avoided fast food
We cannot have a fully functioning national CF service in Ireland until we can fully support our heart and lung transplant service and all that comes with it
We need art on every centimetre of Ireland’s hospital walls, and artists-in-residence to bring nonsecular, open-hearted warmth to our medical spaces
Orla Tinsley: No matter how far we get, there are always those who are happy to project their unchecked ableism on to us, with real-life consequences
The free taxi transport system that brings patients to life-saving treatment is that it has been nothing but problematic from the beginning
Activist is approaching fourth anniversary of successful double lung transplant
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New York doctors work to clear ‘unusual obstruction’ of double lung transplant recipient
Consent deemed granted unless person has registered their wish not to become a donor
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