I only met him once. No, it's not true; I only saw him once, lecturing on something at a Jewish learning centre in Hendon, London. He was great and now he's no more. Some deaths are worse than others. They fill you with a feeling of helplessness. "Who can fill this place?" "Who will take over now?" When David Bowie died the world lost an artist that had based a whole career on integrity, …
Break the rules
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We are our history
History is not the pastIt is the present We carry our history with us We are our history If we pretend otherwise, we are literally criminals James Baldwin, American author …
Corona onslaught in the NHS # 3
We’re starting to get used to it. Used to open the paper with only one thing to read about. Used to queue up in order to buy a toilet roll. Used to people dying. My shift wasn’t bad. I mean, it was boring – I miss my awake patients. High on morphine they are praising me while talking about themselves, their lives, ups and downs. Angry and grumpy about delays and pain they challenge me to play …
Corona onslaught in the NHS # 2
My shift started 8.00 and that’s when I arrived into the theatre department. Which meant I was late. In Corona times you need to arrive at least 15 minutes early. First to get changed into scrubs and then to put all the protective gear on. Takes bloody forever. Especially as you no longer have an abundance of young south European nurses rushing to your assistance, full of admiration for your …
Corona onslaught in the NHS # 1
The normal operations are cancelled. Only obstetrics, babies being born, is going on. They are allowed to maintain their business in the far end of the long operation department. There, behind double closed doors, babies are coming out oblivious to the fuzz all around them. Life goes on. But in the other theatres Corona has taken over. Three positive patients per theatre. These are the …
