Two pieces on gossip from Marc Cooper’s consistently excellent newsletter, The Enlightened Dentist Who gossips with you will gossip of you. -Irish Saying My Name Is Gossip. I have no respect for justice. I maim without killing. I break hearts and ruin lives. I am cunning and malicious and gather strength with age. The moreContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #86”
Author Archives: Alun Rees
UK licence to practise comes short of a “UKMLE”
From The Lancet 8 May 2010 Thanks to reestheskin for sending me this as he comments “says it all”. UK licence to practise comes short of a “UKMLE” by Vladimir Gorelov On Nov 16, 2009, the UK introduced licensing of doctors1—the US way. However, in the USA, it is not just the spelling, “license”, thatContinue reading “UK licence to practise comes short of a “UKMLE””
The Monday Morning Quote #85
“The work of becoming a life long learner, thinker and evaluator can, of course, only be done by the educand. I tell my pupils at the beginning of the lecture course to consider the following: That if at the end of the lecture I require them to remain in their seats and to listen toContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #85”
It’s not only dentists who can get things wrong when they look in the mirror.
Quote for General Election Day
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right” H.L. Mencken With thanks to Word magazine
Quote for General Election Day – 1
‘Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here to get grievances redressed; are you not yourselves become the greatest grievance? Gold is your god, which of you has not bartered your conscience with bribes? Make haste ye venal slaves, be gone.’ Oliver Cromwell speaking in Parliament in 1653 denouncing MPs’Continue reading “Quote for General Election Day – 1”
Our National Smile
Our National Smile – It couldn’t happen here? THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN MOUTH: DENTISTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURYBy Alyssa Picard Piscataway (NJ): Rutgers University Press; 2008. 312 pp., $45.95 On 17 June 2007, Clark Hoyt, ombudsman for the public at the New York Times, wrote an entire column about a singleContinue reading “Our National Smile”
Spike’s Story
In April & May 2009 I wrote these personal blogs: http://www.alunrees.com/blog/rip-freddie & http://www.alunrees.com/blog/welcome-spike Here’s the rest of Spike’s story, written in support of his nomination as “Slimmer of the Year” I kid you not! “He’s quite a big chap,” said Belinda, “and he’s been rather spoilt by his last owner; she wasn’t in the bestContinue reading “Spike’s Story”
Cautious Optimism Is For Amateurs – Doug Emerson
Doug Emerson is a horseman and coach with a niche coaching owners of livery stables in the USA. This recent item from his newsletter struck a personal chord with me. Cautious Optimism Is For Amateurs As the chute opens, is the rodeo bull rider cautiously optimistic about the next eight seconds? Were the signers ofContinue reading “Cautious Optimism Is For Amateurs – Doug Emerson”
The Monday Morning Quote #84
It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a lot of it. (Seneca 4BC – AD65)
The Incisal Edge 