title: The private sector in healthcare: contributing to service but not to research.
abstract: Public and private medicine has lived cheek by jowl in Ireland for many years. In Graves's time, Lyons recounts how "the vacancy at the Meath Hospital filled by the celebrated J Graves in 1821 occurred after an interchange of money" [Lyons JB (1991) 1834-1844. In: The quality of Mercer's-The story of Mercer's Hospital, 1734-1991, Glendale, Dublin, p 70]. Indeed Graves retired from the Meath Hospital aged 47 years to concentrate on his private practice. He continued to work as a consultant to the Adelaide, the Coombe and to Peter's Parish Dispensary, which was an example of how the philanthropic and the private sector worked together in the 1800s.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Trinity College Centre for Health Sciences, AMNCH, Tallaght, Dublin 24, Ireland. todowd@tcd.ie
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: O'Dowd
mesh_terms: D017048:Health Care Costs; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016304:Hospitals, Private / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007494:Ireland; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011331:Private Practice / Q000191:economics*; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000191:economics*; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics*; D012962:Sociology, Medical