Jan 30
People keep asking me why I am not blogging much about my time here as a volunteer doctor at Bwindi Community Hospital, Uganda. I suppose it is largely that the things I find most fascinating and the opinions I have consequently developed are not always appropriate to write about publically. Some things might upset or …
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Dec 20
Recently I had the pleasure of travelling to Portugal to teach on a Healthcare Leadership School and exploring my passion for narrative as a leadership philosophy and methodology. Here is the first in a series of posts about this experience! A crash course in using public narrative to translate values and inspire change We delivered …
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Oct 08
His hands are wringing, frail and wasted with disease, bones straining to break through stretched paper thin skin. Yellowed blood shot eyes staring up at me with a pleading expression, seeking out my eyes for some truth, some answers, some hope. Myself, reflected back in those glassy jaundiced pools of desperation, compassionate but struggling to …
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