• WELCOME
  • SCIENCE & RESEARCH
  • BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT
    • History of blood pressure measurement
    • Measurement in low resource settings
    • Guidelines, standards and recommendations
    • Device validation protocols
    • Device validation studies
    • Device validation – State-of-the-market
    • Conventional blood pressure measurement
    • The mercury issue
    • ABPM – General
    • ABPM – Reference values
    • ABPM – Patterns and sub-groups
    • ABPM – Nocturnal blood pressure
    • ABPM – drug assessment
    • ABPM – Elderly
    • ABPM – Pregnancy
    • ABPM – Outcome
    • ABPM – Computer analysis and indices
    • ABPM – Hypotension
    • Self-blood pressure measurement
  • DRUG TREATMENT AND TRIALS
    • General
    • EWPHE Study
    • Syst-Eur Study
    • PROGRESS Study
    • HYVET Study
    • ASCOT Study
    • REASON Study
    • Aliskiren
  • CASE REPORTS
  • COMPUTERISED MANAGEMENT OF CV DISEASE
  • GENERAL AND EDUCATIONAL
  • GENETICS
  • LITERARY AND HISTORICAL
  • BIOGRAPHY
    • Dominic Corrigan
    • Oliver Fitzgerald
    • William Stokes
    • Robert Graves
    • John Cheyne
    • Robert Adams
    • J.D.H. Widdess
    • Walter Sommerville
    • Samuel Beckett
    • A.J. (Con) Leventhal
    • Nevill Johnson
      • Nevill Johnson: Paint the smell of grass
    • Oliver St John Gogarty
    • Denis Johnston
    • Dom Peter Flood
    • Micheal MacLiammoir
    • Petr Skrabanek
  • HISTORY OF MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS
    • A Century of Service: The City of Dublin Skin and Cancer Hospital 1911-2011
    • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
    • Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
    • The Charitable Infirmary
    • The Richmond Hospital
    • Beaumont Hospital
  • MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND LETTERS
  • MEDICAL JOURNALISM
  • MEDICAL HISTORICAL EXHIBITIONS
  • PUBLISHING
  • HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES
  • COMMUNICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
    • Scientific Presentations 1981 – 2006
    • Literary Presentations and Exhibitions
    • Humanitarian Presentations & Exhibitions
    • Communications on Medical History
  • TELEVISION AND RADIO
    • Medical Presenataions on Radio and Television
    • Historical/Literary Presentations on Radio and Television
  • CAREER OVERVIEW
    • Appointments
    • Learned Societies, Committee Membership, and Editorial Boards
    • Blood Pressue Unit and ADAPT Centre Annual Reports 1996 – 2006
    • Bibliography of Scientific Publications
      • Publications 1978 -1990
      • Publications 1991-1992
      • Publications 1993 – 1999
      • Publications 2000 – 2009
      • Publications 2010 – 2011
Eoin O'Brien

WELCOME

This website has been established to satisfy a demand for information and towards this end I have let my activities as a doctor fall into four categories. This categorisation has the advantage of convenience albeit at the expense of tradition that might have dictated otherwise.

Firstly, there has been my commitment to the practice of medicine and, in particular to my speciality – cardiology – or more correctly to cardiovascular medicine, which obliterates the restrictive confines of the former denotation. I can only document this aspect of my career by indicating milestones that show where I was at a particular time, and the medical personalities whose influence might have been lighting my future path, but my success or failure (are the two ever separable for long?) must ultimately be left to my patients to judge.

Secondly, there is the spirit of enquiry, which attracted me to examine critically how I practiced medicine and this inevitably led me to research, and particularly to research into hypertension and the risks associated with heart attack and stroke. The currency of research is the dissemination of the endeavour of enquiry, which calls for presentation at international meetings and publication in specialist and general journals. This activity can be presented effectively on a website, and so the international and national scientific presentations together with over 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals since the Blood Pressure Unit was founded in 1979 are presented. For those wishing to dig deeper publications are grouped according to subject and many are available as pdf files.

Another logical extension of enquiry, or so it seems to me, is a study of the past. By standing on the shoulders of earlier researchers we can view the pathways to the future. This realisation led me inevitably to study and write about the history of medicine. I have included, therefore, a section on my foray into this subject, which led me to write a number of papers and books. Again a website is ideally suited to not only to documenting these productions, but also to providing illustrative material on the past.

The presentation of communication in medicine, if I may call it such led me inevitably to the editorship of two journals – the Journal of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons (for two terms) and the Irish Medical Journal and probably to founding two presses – Black Cat Press and Anniversary Press – to publish what might be regarded by the establishment as somewhat esoteric works. Again a website allows me to archive the somewhat turbulent consequences of these activities.

Finally, it is my contention that medicine should not be divorced from the humanities, which can bring a sense of compassion and understanding to doctors distracted by the materialistic and technological demands of the present age. This activity removed me from science for some pleasant and rewarding years to the study of literature, in particular the writings of Samuel Beckett. It led moreover to a friendship, from which arose The Beckett Country. Again, a website allows me to share some of the results of this period of my career.


Links

Blood Pressure links, including to BP Expert App on iTunes

BP Expert

BP Expert App on iTunes

dabl Educational Trust

dabl Health

dabl Research


Books


Conscience and Conflict: A Biography of Sir Dominic Corrigan 1802-1880. The Glendale Press. Dublin. 1983.

A Portrait of Irish Medicine; An Illustrated History of Medicine in Ireland. O’Brien E, Crookshank A, Wolstenholme G. 1984. Ward River Press & RCSI. Dublin. Pp. 287-295.

The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street 1718-1987: A Farewell Tribute. Edited by E. O’Brien. Anniversary Press. Dublin 1987.


The House of Industry Hospitals 1772-1987. The Richmond, Whitworth and hardwicke (St. Laurences’s Hospital). A Closing Memoir. Edited by E.O’Brien, L.Browne, K.O’Malley. Anniversary Press. Dublin. 1988.

The Beckett Country: Samuel Beckett’s Ireland. The Black Cat Press & Faber and Faber. Dublin. 1986.


A.J. Leventhal 1896-1979: Dublin Scholar: wit and man of letters. Edited by Eoin O’Brien. Leventhal Scholarship Committee.The Glendale Press. Dublin 1984. Pp. 19-31.


Nevill Johnson: Paint the smell of grass

A Century of Service: The City of Dublin Skin and Cancer Hospital 1911-2011

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  1. Claire Meaney on July 27, 2012 at 4:02 pm said:

    Dear Eoin,

    Martin Fahy is the current Artist-in-Residence with the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) at Waterford Regional Hospital. He will have an exhibition in Waterford Regional Hospital and the WHAT Centre for Arts and Health from September – October this year on the theme of the heart.

    During his residency, Martin invited patients and staff in the hospital to share with him a story or memory of something that they had learned by heart. He worked with patients in the Coronary Care Unit, Cardiac Rehab Unit and Cardiology. Martin is incorporating these stories/memories into illustrations which he will present as prints for his exhibition.

    Given your interest in the heart we would like to invite you to officially launch this exhibition on Thursday 13th September in the WHAT Centre for Arts & Health, Waterford at 5.00pm. I would appreciate it if you could phone me on 051-842664 or e-mail claireA.meaney@hse.ie to discuss this further.

    For more information on Martin see http://www.waterfordhealingarts.com

    I look forward to hearing from you,

    Best wishes,

    Claire Meaney
    Assistant Arts Director
    Waterford Healing Arts Trust

  2. Jim Wilson on November 4, 2012 at 1:05 pm said:

    Hi,

    My grandmother, Christina Wilson (nee Jessop) was an MPSI, as were three of her children.
    We were always told she was the first female pharmacist to qualify in Ireland in 1900.
    Christina Jessop was born in Dublin in 1879, trained in Furlong’s Chemist. She went on to work in the South Dublin Union (now Saint James’ Hospital) and it was there she met a young pharmacist from Cobh, Jack Wilson, who she married.

    I am wondering if you would know if there are any historical records that would shed light on her qualification. I am also interest in finding out how and where did someone qualify as a pharmacist in Ireland in 1900?

    I have searched on line but there appears to nothing in print on the history of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland or pharmacy in Ireland but did see references to the history of pharmacy on this website.

    Any help with this would be much appreciated.

    Sincerely, Jim Wilson

  3. David Lucas on January 14, 2013 at 2:56 am said:

    My great grand uncle died May 7, 1916. He died a throat incision event and then pnemonia. His death record states he died at Dublin Castle. He was a Dublin Metropolitan Police member from 1901 to 1916. An article mentions he died at Jervis on May 4th, 1916. Are the medical records or patient records available for Jervis?

    His name is James Hetherton. (Heatherton / Hethertain)

    James Hetherton
    Birth Jun 20 1874 in Kilnaleck, County Cavan, Ireland
    Death May 7, 1916 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

    My email is dblucas@charter.net

    Sincerely,

    David Lucas

  4. admin on April 14, 2013 at 5:45 pm said:

    Dear Mr. Wilson,

    Please accept my apology for not replying sooner but I have only just discovered your request. Regrettably I cannot help you as I do not know if any records exist. You might try the Irish Pharmaceutical Union.

    With kind regards,

    Yours sincerely,

    Eoin O’Brien

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  • WELCOME
  • SCIENCE & RESEARCH
  • BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT
    • History of blood pressure measurement
    • Measurement in low resource settings
    • Guidelines, standards and recommendations
    • Device validation protocols
    • Device validation studies
    • Device validation – State-of-the-market
    • Conventional blood pressure measurement
    • The mercury issue
    • ABPM – General
    • ABPM – Reference values
    • ABPM – Patterns and sub-groups
    • ABPM – Nocturnal blood pressure
    • ABPM – drug assessment
    • ABPM – Elderly
    • ABPM – Pregnancy
    • ABPM – Outcome
    • ABPM – Computer analysis and indices
    • ABPM – Hypotension
    • Self-blood pressure measurement
  • DRUG TREATMENT AND TRIALS
    • General
    • EWPHE Study
    • Syst-Eur Study
    • PROGRESS Study
    • HYVET Study
    • ASCOT Study
    • REASON Study
    • Aliskiren
  • CASE REPORTS
  • COMPUTERISED MANAGEMENT OF CV DISEASE
  • GENERAL AND EDUCATIONAL
  • GENETICS
  • LITERARY AND HISTORICAL
  • BIOGRAPHY
    • Dominic Corrigan
    • Oliver Fitzgerald
    • William Stokes
    • Robert Graves
    • John Cheyne
    • Robert Adams
    • J.D.H. Widdess
    • Walter Sommerville
    • Samuel Beckett
    • A.J. (Con) Leventhal
    • Nevill Johnson
      • Nevill Johnson: Paint the smell of grass
    • Oliver St John Gogarty
    • Denis Johnston
    • Dom Peter Flood
    • Micheal MacLiammoir
    • Petr Skrabanek
  • HISTORY OF MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS
    • A Century of Service: The City of Dublin Skin and Cancer Hospital 1911-2011
    • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
    • Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
    • The Charitable Infirmary
    • The Richmond Hospital
    • Beaumont Hospital
  • MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND LETTERS
  • MEDICAL JOURNALISM
  • MEDICAL HISTORICAL EXHIBITIONS
  • PUBLISHING
  • HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES
  • COMMUNICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
    • Scientific Presentations 1981 – 2006
    • Literary Presentations and Exhibitions
    • Humanitarian Presentations & Exhibitions
    • Communications on Medical History
  • TELEVISION AND RADIO
    • Medical Presenataions on Radio and Television
    • Historical/Literary Presentations on Radio and Television
  • CAREER OVERVIEW
    • Appointments
    • Learned Societies, Committee Membership, and Editorial Boards
    • Blood Pressue Unit and ADAPT Centre Annual Reports 1996 – 2006
    • Bibliography of Scientific Publications
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      • Publications 1993 – 1999
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