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Dear Sir, Recently I was advised to have an MRI; however, as I am claustrophobic I could not consider the normal MRI. A friend advised me to contact the new clinic of Dr. Soares, viz: The Hamilton Medical Centre, which had an open MRI. I duly visi...

A father-of-three who spent nine days unconscious on life support after a major stroke woke up just in time to wish his wife a Merry Christmas, she revealed at the weekend. Joel Boyd, a 36-year-old accountant, was airlifted off the island on December...

The urgent care clinic in St. David’s will halve its weekday opening hours from the start of next week. The Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre sees patients between 12pm and 8pm. But the centre will open at 4pm during the week from next Monday. X-ray serv...

The Government could build or convert buildings to field hospitals to deal with the Covid-19 crisis if needed, the Ministry of Health has said. A spokeswoman for the health ministry added: “Nothing is being ruled out.” The spokeswoman said that the G...

A new hospital that will include an urgent care section and employ about 40 people is scheduled to open in the centre of Hamilton in June. It will be in addition to the outpatient services and no appointment walk-ins that are available at the moment ...

Dear Sir, Over the past few months, I have received several letters from the Lahey Foundation soliciting donations. These letters have been sent to my street address, which is not the address I use for mail. I have never used any medical facility in ...

Ewart Brown urged health minister Kim Wilson to “politically interfere” to ensure his clinics did not suffer financially in the wake of a One Bermuda Alliance government decision to slash fees for medical scans. The doctor and former premier e-mailed...

A seven-month e-mail trail details the controversy that led to the Bermuda Government’s decision to offer compensation to medical services that were affected hit by a significant cut in fees for high-tech scans. “It would appear that the [health] co...

A packed hall of supporters has vowed to stand behind Ewart Brown, the former premier, the day after his Brown-Darrell clinic closed the doors on its CT medical scanning service. The computerised X-ray scanning service at the Smith’s facility was clo...

Patients concerned about the closure of a high-tech computerised X-ray service at the Brown-Darrell Clinic have been invited to a meeting tomorrow. Ewart Brown, the former premier and owner of the Bermuda Healthcare Services in Smith’s, will answer q...

A multi-specialty medical practice offering a fresh approach to healthcare services is set to open in Hamilton within weeks. The Bermuda Medical Specialties Group practice, located in a 6,500-square-foot space on the third floor of Reid Hall on Reid ...

Dear Sir, I arrived from Michigan to play in the Bermuda Regional Duplicate Bridge Tournament and, as is my habit, picked up the local paper for a view that tourists don’t get. I read with interest your articles and opinion pieces in Friday’s paper r...