Radiation – Friend or Foe? Presidential Address to Ulster Medical Society 4th October 2012

The Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast. Fifty glorious years 1933-1983. Presidential address to the Ulster Medical Society, 20th October 1983.

THE hospital from which the Royal Maternity evolved was conceived 140 years before at a meeting in the Linen Hall on 23rd December 1793 by a group of 180 ladies who called themselves "The Humane Female Society for the Relief of Lyingin-Women". After a short gestational period of 11 days the first Belfast Lying-in Hospital was born on 4th January 1794. It was a house No. 25 Donegall Street rente...

The fortunes of the legal and medical professions during the “Troubles” - Presentation to The Northern Ireland Medicolegal Society - October 14 2014

The seed for my presentation emerged from Mr Justice Ben Stevens’ eloquent Presidential address last year. In thanking him I reflected that we have taken for granted how, after 1969, while much of civil society failed to function, lawyers and doctors maintained the highest professional and ethical standards, with many developing national and international reputations. Most crucially, law and me...

Kant: Friend or Foe of the Believer? Plantinga and Other American Christian Responses to Kant's Epistemology

Apocrine Metaplasia in Intraductal Papilloma with Foci of DCIS: A Friend or Foe?

Malignant papillary neoplasms of the breast comprise a number of microscopically distinct lesions, where apocrine metaplasia is commonly found in papillomas compared to other papillary lesions including papillary carcinomas. However, association of apocrine metaplasia in papilloma with Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) is not very well defined. The lesions with apocrine metaplasia are not only di...

The Presidential Regalia of the Ulster Medical Society

The formal Presidential regalia is an ornate chain from which is suspended the badge of the British Medical Association and below it the badge of the Society (Figure 1 ). The large badge is engraved on the front 'British Medical Association Belfast 1909' (Figure 2). It was presented by the medical profession of Ulster to Sir William Whitla who was President of the BMA when it met in Belfast in ...