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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Apr 21, 2017November 25, 2017

‘It was odd being dead’

This is a fictional film. It is about a teddy bear, Dr Hale Bopp and a day of two halves. In the morning Dr Hale Bopp goes exploring in the Scottish … Continue reading ‘It was odd being dead’

Categories: Ageing, Architecture, British Medical Journal, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, NHS Scotland, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Appraisal, Appraising Appraisal, B F Piko, BMJ, C.P. Snow, David Oliver, Decline anf Fall. Corridors of Power, Dexter Britain, Evelyn Waugh, General Medical Council, Gersit Law, GMC, Hale Bopp, In Defence of Wonder, Jessie Burton, Jonathan Sleath, Keeping older doctors in the job, Monteath, Monteath Mausoleum, NHS Scotland, Older doctors revisited, Perfect I am not, Physicians of the future: Renaissance of Polymaths, Raymond Tallis, Revalidation, Revalidation: What you need to know, Sir Keith Pearson, Taking Revalidation Forward, Telling Stories, The Good Medical Practice Framework for Appraisal and Revalidation, The Muse, Time to rethink on appraisal and revalidation for older doctors

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