Recommendation of a GP in Co. Meath

CareBear2008

Hello!

I'm looking to change doctors as my current one is more interested in money than my health. Does anyone know of a good/caring/reliable GP in the Meath area or even the surrounding areas.

Thanks

Ben

FibbersON

Dr Corish in Maynooth, decent lad and €30.00 if you can make it during the day, has appointments in the evening. Good doctor, doesn't ****e talk you, or rush you either, just a nice bloke who happens to be a doctor.

TomMc

You kind of know which ones chase after money from this list.

http://www.meathchronicle.ie/story.asp?stID=1081

Haven't been at the doc for years - I'm a Man! So probably not the best person for giving advice but Dr Niall Maguire is good IMHO.

Miss Fluff

TomMc wrote: »

You kind of know which ones chase after money from this list.

http://www.meathchronicle.ie/story.asp?stID=1081

So doctors shouldn't be paid then?

TomMc

Miss Fluff wrote: »

So doctors shouldn't be paid then?

Where did I say that?

Just that the OP wanted a GP who gives more of the personal touch, rather than one who gives the impression that they just want to get through as many patients as possible in the one day. While a few of the very high earners, I would know of first hand (from a now deceased mother) and wouldn't be so churlish to knock (by name), I see a few names which from personal experience had a tendency to fob things off (sometimes serious) and do not have best manner or personas either. All I can say is that the younger the doctor usually the more pleasant and caring they are. Call me a cynic, but I guess over the years it gets to many of the more senior GP's and grinds them down somewhat.

Miss Fluff

TomMc wrote: »

Where did I say that?

Just that the OP wanted a GP who gives more of the personal touch, rather than one who gives the impression that they just want to get through as many patients as possible in the one day.

The figures quoted in the link you provided is for GMS patients, i.e. the ones with medical cards so all the doctor gets for them is a one-off annual payment for each cardholder so I doubt they "want to get through as many patients as possible in one day" tbh

TomMc

Yes, so if they are very busy with medical cardholders would it not encourage and indeed condition them (if you like) to keep visits as short as possible. Not to mention see as many private patients as possible to maximise their time and supplement what are restricted earnings (however large the amounts seem to most wage earners).

adelcrowsmel

The only ones I know are in the Navan area and I have gone to Dr. Finn in Navan and have always found him very good - especially if its any kind of injury rather than sickness, he was the team doc for the Meath team so good with idetifying sports injuries etc.... Or if its a female doc you prefere, Dr. Scully is in the same clinic, maybe hasn't the best bedside manner but is very good too and Dr. Merchant who would be my favourite I think - spends ages with you checking everything and you feel like you get your money's worth!!:o:o

gordon_gekko

dr jim gallagher in kells is a very good doctor , hes from donegal and unusually for doctors , he,s very unassuming and humble in demeanor

as for the reactionary post from fluff about doctors not getting paid

there are many doctors out there who,s main priority is money , take my doctor , i saw him about 8 times in the space of 2 mths after having had an accident , i spoke to him on the phone twice in that perioid , he rang me once and i rang him the other time , when i got someone to go up to his clinic to collect the prescription i had discussed with him on the phone

he pulled this person into a side room and whinged about what it would cost if he were to charge every time he spoke to me on the phone and also how he had seen me a lot lately
you would think it was better for his business if i was seeing him a lot but my guess is that i was availing of the 25 euro repeat visit (45) being the 1st visit fee ) and that way i had 4 repeat visits in 8 appointments

JuliusCaesar

gordon_gekko wrote: »

he pulled this person into a side room and whinged about what it would cost if he were to charge every time he spoke to me on the phone and also how he had seen me a lot lately

The relationship between yourself and your GP is important & so a GP that someone else finds good is not one that you will like.

(GPs have a right to earn a living too! -solicitors charge for every letter and phone call, GPs don't. - They studied long enough! And it's a difficult job) (I'm a bit uncomfortable with GPs being named here.) (I'm not a GP not do I have any connection with any)

http://apt.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/3/5/275

http://www.goodmedicine.org.uk/downloads/past.seminars/wellbeing.and.health.seminars/looking%20after%20ourselves/balance.or.crazy.PPT.

gordon_gekko

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

The relationship between yourself and your GP is important & so a GP that someone else finds good is not one that you will like.

(GPs have a right to earn a living too! -solicitors charge for every letter and phone call, GPs don't. - They studied long enough! And it's a difficult job) (I'm a bit uncomfortable with GPs being named here.) (I'm not a GP not do I have any connection with any)

http://apt.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/3/5/275

http://www.goodmedicine.org.uk/downloads/past.seminars/wellbeing.and.health.seminars/looking%20after%20ourselves/balance.or.crazy.PPT.

you could have fooled me about being a doc

as for doctors not charging for phone calls , dcotors will rarely ever call a patient

there in it for the money like everyone else , patients are customers by another name, a more high brow name

Lollipops23

hey OP i visited the clinic in Dunshaughlin a while back-i'm not a local but the BF is. They were very helpful,running tests and checking everything out and all the time in a professional manner.
i'd reccommend them!

Rattlehead_ie

Ive gone to for years Neil Maguire in Navan and I can't complain, always has time and willing to help or listen about anything you might have issue / questions about.

L1011

TomMc wrote: »

You kind of know which ones chase after money from this list.

http://www.meathchronicle.ie/story.asp?stID=1081

Haven't been at the doc for years - I'm a Man! So probably not the best person for giving advice but Dr Niall Maguire is good IMHO.

Higher someone is on that list, the likelyhood is the less private patients they have. I'd wager that the ones in Mosney have NO private practice being as what Mosney is now. Generally doctors with very high GMS payments are in deprived areas or areas with a very aged population.

Back on topic - if you're in South Meath and can get to Maynooth, I'll second Corish as being very good and not at all pricey, as is the other doctor in his practice, I think its Eithne Bolger.

beeno67

TomMc wrote: »

You kind of know which ones chase after money from this list.

http://www.meathchronicle.ie/story.asp?stID=1081
quote]
This refers to payments to GPs not income. So from this GP will have to pay other staff including assistant doctors (staff allowances do not cover full cost), rent/mortgage, light, heat, insurance etc.

LegacyUser

I agree with the posts Re Dr Corish and Dr Eithne Bolger - both are excellent doctors with the best manner I have encountered in Ireland. They are interested in the person and getting and keeping you well - Balanced, realistic and excelent at the medical content...These are not just diagnosticians like most doctors these days but truly General Practitioners of medicine and do their own bloods etc rather than fobbing you off on already overcrowded hospitals which are inconvenient and difficult for some folk to get to.

Excellent and cannot recommend this practice highly enough.

princess_bride

Sparky123456 wrote: »

I agree with the posts Re Dr Corish and Dr Eithne Bolger - both are excellent doctors with the best manner I have encountered in Ireland. They are interested in the person and getting and keeping you well - Balanced, realistic and excelent at the medical content...These are not just diagnosticians like most doctors these days but truly General Practitioners of medicine and do their own bloods etc rather than fobbing you off on already overcrowded hospitals which are inconvenient and difficult for some folk to get to.

Excellent and cannot recommend this practice highly enough.

Have to agree with this. I go to Dr Bolger (who's Dr Corish's wife btw) and she's the nicest doc I've come across since I left home. She's the first one I've felt I could actually talk to. She's more interested in finding out what's wrong, rather than just fobbing you off with antibiotics and a sick cert.

meganj

+1 For both Corish and Bolger.

Corish is good craic, doesn't take himself to seriously, always offering to write me a sick note for college. He also listens to you and doesn't berate you for things!

Bolger is also fantastic, i kinda prefer her to Corish, mostly because she's a gal, she's lovely, really helpful, always telling me to call her Eithne, and always making jokes and stuff. She's lovely really puts you at ease.

I really adore them because they took a complaint i had seriously, when no other doctor did! They're cheap too, 30euro for a surgery walk in, 50 for an evening appointment and 20 if your a student. They're great wish there were more doc's ike them!

Victor

Folks, can we stay on topic?

OP, Meath is a large county, do you want to narrow things down for people?