Redefine professionalism at your peril

Redefine professionalism at your peril

“If I want to get plastered on a Saturday night, and fight on my High Street,” a surgeon told me about 12 years ago, “ I can.”  At that time I took issue with his view, my lofty beliefs then suggesting that professionalism was something we were, part of our...
Revolution: let’s make this count.

Revolution: let’s make this count.

“And still we don’t get it.” A recent thread on twitter asked for a six word story of our Covid 19 experience and the words above shouted themselves into my brain.  I wasn’t talking of the fact that in my family so far we seem to have been lucky in not getting...
Re-calibrating: a different view

Re-calibrating: a different view

A failed kidney transplant patient, he had spent large part of his life in and out of hospital even though he was only seven. He knew all about doctors and nurses, blood tests and operations. He did not like being in hospital and he did not like being told what to do....