It’s never too late to set new goals or to revisit old ones and, as long as you persist, just about anything is achievable (even passing A-levels). I eventually passed my A-levels in August 1973, (with grateful thanks to the lecturers at Harrogate Tech). I asked my father if he could get me a copyContinue reading “War and Peace 45 years on…”
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Little by little – Happy Winter Solstice.
Happy Winter Solstice! Don’t worry I’m not going off on a Pagan kick just taking sometime to enjoy the bleak midwinter. Today, December 21st, is the shortest day of the year. Where I live the daylight will last for 7 hours 49 minutes and 18 seconds. As I used to tell my son, before heContinue reading “Little by little – Happy Winter Solstice.”
40 years on M.K. still asks hard questions.
Forty years ago I was four and a half months in to my first job as one of the two “Resident House Surgeons in the Dept of Oral Surgery” at The London Hospital, now The Royal London. I am still amazed that I got the post, the story of my interview is worth hearing ifContinue reading “40 years on M.K. still asks hard questions.”
Is it me or am I in a supermarket checkout time loop?
Headline from yesterday’s Guardian: “Removing sweets from checkouts could help tackle obesity – study” Every dental professional who ever lived will probably shake their head and roll their eyes, (not a good look), when they read this, and mutter, “Isn’t that what we have been trying to achieve for years, or is it decades?” BackContinue reading “Is it me or am I in a supermarket checkout time loop?”
HPV vaccination (yet) again
July 2018: The Words: “UK Government advisers have recommended extending funding for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines to boys. The HPV vaccine was previously offered to girls aged 12 to 13, with the new recommendation meaning 400,000 boys will also benefit every year. All UK Governments took on board the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunsation’s (JCVI’s) advice.Continue reading “HPV vaccination (yet) again”
The Monday Morning Quote #513
“We’re not in the coffee business serving people, we’re in the people business serving coffee” Howard Schultz (Chairman Emeritus, Starbucks)
Have any lessons from Theranos been learned?
“…some employees who raised concerns were fired and others resigned. A combination of secrecy and a pugilistic tendency for legal skirmishes prevailed under the founder’s view that she required absolute loyalty…” “How could the markets have been so misled? Flawed human nature predicts our ability to succumb to overselling and inflated claims. The company hadContinue reading “Have any lessons from Theranos been learned?”
The Monday Morning Quote #512
“Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.” David S Rose
The Monday Morning Quote #511
“The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.” Brené Brown
It’s always the small that get squeezed the most…
Over the past few years I have seen a few dentists who are being forced into financial situations that are making survival harder with relatively short-term loans that were taken out at “tight” times and their banks declining to support them further by rescheduling the debts over a longer term. Instead of being able toContinue reading “It’s always the small that get squeezed the most…”
The Incisal Edge 