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Entries from November 2007

MFDS – bad for your teeth

November 30th, 2007 · No Comments

  Just on my way back from sunny Glasgow (well the sun came out after the horizontal rain and wind stopped!) examining for the first ever diet of the part two of the all new MFDS examination at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG). Having been given the honour of an [...]

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Annie, I’m not your daddy

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Today I began with a meeting with my PhD student and then spent an hour doing a session on CPR for the boys and girls who missed their induction week session. We are all familiar with Resusci Anne but did you know why she looks like she does?
Her face is based on a death mask of [...]

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Och aye the noo

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments

This weeks further adventures finds me in Scotland on the bonny banks of Loch Lomond as illustrated by those slap-stick Yorkshiremen, the Chuckle Brothers (my kids love ‘em and I must admit to often sitting down on the sofa when they are on and emitting the odd chuckle –  cBBC 8.30 Saturday mornings if you [...]

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Give my regards to Wimpole Street

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

To educate the uninitiated of you, “Give my regards to Broadway” was a song in the George Cohan Broadway musical “Little Jonny Jones”. Those of you who are 80s kids, you may also remember Paul McCartney’s musical and accompanying album, “Give my regards to Broadstreet”, a play on the former title and the name of [...]

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Care in the community, high in the sky and boys on film

November 18th, 2007 · No Comments

How to start a weekly round up without saying “Another week flown by..” Well it has. Not wanting to be accused of burying good news, please also check out this weeks coffee time interview below after you have read this with Sir Anthony Roberts.
After a number of admin duties on Monday we had a very [...]

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