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The Too-Rapid Passage of Time
As I sat on the train from the Borders, my phone pinged with a new email ( Read more... ) -
You Want What?
Within 24 hours of ending my GP rotation, I’ll be off on my senior elective. I am beginning to feel woefully unprepared. But I had a conversation yesterday with a gentleman who has some knowledge of medical electives and the organising thereof and with a gentleman who was heading off on his holidays within the hour and had not yet packed, and the ( Read more... ) -
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I'm posting from my phone, so rather than try to C+P a wall of text I will simply say that there was an (IMHO) ridiculous letter in the sBMJ this morning and I have ranted about it on the blog. -
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I realise that I haven't been posting much about Doctor Who during this series, but I have been watching it. I wasn't sold on the first two episodes and am still not what you'd call excited about how they're going to resolve that plot -- there comes a point when it stops being timey-wimey and starts being but you're just giving me a sodding ( Read more... ) -
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I've been watching the good episode of Silent Witness from last year. You know, with the shooting and Harry being a BAMF with floppy hair and a Swiss Army knife and, uh, Ben Daniels's husband being lovely but getting himself killed fairly early on. Written by the people who wrote the clusterfuck in Budapest, but everyone makes mistakes ( Read more... ) -
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On the train back to London. I have a connection to make from Waterloo through to Bournemouth, and then flying home late tomorrow evening. The most important thing on this journey is to not lose the damn poster. -
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The most sensible and measured response I've seen all morning to the bin Laden thing is this, from Eric Fidler on Twitter:
Remember on Sept 12, 2001, when you saw people in some places abroad celebrating death? Exactly. Don't be like that.
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seeking advice from the hive mind
If you were doing a poster presentation for a medical student conference at which most presenters are going to be undergraduates, would you use your undergraduate degree when writing your name on the poster? -
Mission Impossible: Hope for Holy Saturday
He had been in paradise ( Read more... ) -
God so loved the world
As we slipped out of the gathered crowd at the Garden and made our way into the sacristy, another server paused and reverenced the altar and then caught herself and I could see that we had had the same thought at the same time ( Read more... )