Change, standing still and evolution
I watch the ripples change their size But never leave the stream Of warm impermanence So, wrote David Bowie in […]
Incident
Pain is pain is pain, or so the saying goes.
Don’t call my symptoms mild!
I don’t think we can banish these terms (unlike sufferer, which yes, should be binned)
Mind-reading
I thank Stephen King for first hitting on this idea*. The existence of the concept of telepathy. I can’t necessarily […]
4-hours
I’d never really considered healthcare as a competitive sport.
The frailty continues…
Thinking again of Bruce Lee – back in the 60’s he was aware of the potential harm of naming; the risk of distortion, perversion, narrowing our horizons.
They can’t even get their crap recruitment right
I tweeted yesterday something about the UK’s workforce problems facing health and social care. There you go. Check out the […]
Troponinitis
Troponin, this Millennial test, investigation of the iPhone generation is, despite its reputation not all that.
India, etc.
The plan had been to explain to people the why, what, where of my trip to India. We are heading-out, […]
Frailty. No.
I had intended this blog to focus on my planned trip to India in a couple of weeks; readers will […]
Small is beautiful
ure, there are workforce and financial hurdles, but, the most valuable resources are people, and, by, supporting and nurturing their emotional, intellectual and experiential capital things happen.
Fake news, the NHS and Middle East
...this of course doesn’t mean that you won’t be the sucker to die on the tablet, you are just less likely.
(lots of references!)
Person-centred mainstream?
I gave my annual lecture to the Sheffield University Medical Students on Thursday. It was the hottest day of the […]
Tell me what has been happening.
This is how I often start, begin the conversation, listen to the story from the perspective of the husband or […]
Being Jeremy Hunt
In the past when I have written about Mr Hunt I have struggled to use his name, generally preferring the […]
Why I don’t like (clinical) pathways – a physician speaks.
None of my patients seem to fit-into pathways, and that is a problem, for, as I say, the system is bedevilled with them.
