Nice piece on UK medicine, those who will work in it and their readiness – or not. I knew little of what I was entering in 1978. How will they see things in 25 years I wonder? Full piece here: reestheskin.so/?p=2010 More about the author here. What do you tell students about the future? IContinue reading “What do you tell (medical) students about the future?”
Author Archives: Alun Rees
The Monday Morning Quote #334
“A business that looks orderly says to your customer that your people know what they’re doing.” Michael E. Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited
Never thought I would write about “The Chosen One.”
I thought that Jose Mourinho had been put on this earth to provide Hugh Dennis with material since Dennis is no longer able to do his Saville inspired “Showaddywaddy”. Instead he has given a chance to share an opinion on employment law from Gateley plc in the wake of a falling out with the ChelseaContinue reading “Never thought I would write about “The Chosen One.””
Oliver Sacks – R.I.P.
The neurologist Oliver Sacks has died in New York. There is a full obituary in The Guardian here. I read the piece (below) in the New York Times earlier this year after listening to a review of his autobiography. Like most of us I would like to think that I could be so eloquent aboutContinue reading “Oliver Sacks – R.I.P.”
The Monday Morning Quote #333 – Poems in August #5
If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, OrContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #333 – Poems in August #5”
Want to get a handle on Occlusion?
Want to get a handle on occlusion? The British Society for Occlusal studies has been at the forefront of the teaching of occlusion to dentists in the UK for a quarter of a century. Their three day course to be held in Birmingham is one that I thoroughly recommend. Details are available from the websiteContinue reading “Want to get a handle on Occlusion?”
Are your customers avoiding you?
I like, and sometimes even admire, the advertising industry, at its very top end it is entertaining and memorable. Most of it is not, it’s mundane, repetitive and unimaginative. I thoroughly enjoyed John Hegarty’s book and think that he and a lot of his colleagues are very bright, creative thinkers. I have read about DavidContinue reading “Are your customers avoiding you?”
The Monday Morning Quote #332 – Poems in August #4
Happy The Man Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself, uponContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #332 – Poems in August #4”
The Weekend Read – Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith
One of the biggest challenges that we all face is change. Marshall Goldsmith is one of the world’s leading executive coaches and he hasn’t got there by failing to help his clients succeed. To do so he has to be able to walk the talk in his own life and this book reflects how hisContinue reading “The Weekend Read – Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith”
A Doctor’s Sword
Susan & I went to the multiplex cinema in Bantry last night to see the documentary film “A Doctor’s Sword”. The late Pete McCarthy wrote that, “you should never pass a bar with your name on it” and his travelog “McCarthy’s Bar” features a (photoshopped) photograph of MacCarthy’s bar in Castletownbere on the Beara peninsula.Continue reading “A Doctor’s Sword”
The Incisal Edge 