It's a new semester and a new year of studies! May the sun and the warm September weather continue for a long time yet! Best of luck to us all, whether we begin with our cases of "Marshall" or "Delaney"...
Recent news about the "migrant" crises in Europe is on 24/7 - and perhaps it's a good starting point to consider what this all means to us and HEP. Even though we're busy studying about the ear or the kidney, the issue of refugees and asylum seekers is not removed from us here in Limerick. Ireland also has some difficult policies concerning those seeking asylum here and we have been pondering about the health issues concerning these individuals. If anything, it reflects the intricately tied relationship of medicine and society that we are intimately part of. Barring the macro-policy scale, what is possible to us in this circumstance? The crisis may have focused the lens presently into this issue, but the treatment and health rubric of asylum seekers in Europe hasn't often been one with positive numbers or experiences. For more information, the advocacy group Doras Luimni (http://dorasluimni.org/) is a good place to start in terms of the Irish context. We're planning on getting to know them as well. That is, if you're not bombarded with your workload already.
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