Spoilers ahead! As a self-confessed cinephile, I’ve watched a lot of films over the years. Some of them I forget almost immediately. I might remember that I watched them, but not much else. Others stay with you long after the credits roll. There are films I gave no thought to…
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Getting Back to Reading!
I went through a phase where I just didn’t read. I still liked books. I still bought them occasionally. I just never finished them. By the time the kids were in bed and the house was quiet, my brain was tired. Reading felt like another task instead of something relaxing,…
I Hate Cancer!
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This News Made Me Smile So Wide!
The Hepatobiliary unit is one place I always dreaded covering when I had to do HPB ward rounds. Not because I didn’t want to learn, but because of what I saw there. Patients with pancreatic cancer stayed with me long after the ward round ended. Some had tubes everywhere. Some…
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What Pregnancy Looked Like From My Side
Part One: What I Saw Happen When my wife got pregnant, I didn’t realise how much of it I would be watching from the sidelines. I knew pregnancy was hard, but seeing it up close was different. The first trimester was rough for her. She had a lot of nausea…
Faces of Healthcare
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Ada – PhD Fellow
I’m 31 and a PhD researcher in the Genomics Department and I find the DNA to be the most fascinating ever! I’m passionate about understanding cancer from a genetic point of view. I love boba drinks, and my favourite movie is The Holiday. Yesterday, 9th January I woke up around…
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Meet Lynn!
A Band 6 nurse working on the Hepatology ward. She enjoys sudoku and her favourite person is her dad. Thursday 8th Jan 06:00My alarm goes off. I’ve very much aware of the time I wake up so I don’t hit the snooze button anymore. I sit up slowly and drink…
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The Man on the 16:15 Bus
There is an elderly man I have met a few times on the bus. You notice him first by the lines on his face, deep and settled, the kind that suggest life has not always been kind. Not cruel exactly, but heavy. The sort of heaviness that comes from staying…
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The Blue Backpack
I noticed her because of the bag. We were both wearing the same one, a small, blue backpack. The kind that’s practical but still a little cute, and when I caught her eye and pointed at it, she smiled immediately. “Hey,” I said, “we’ve got the same bag.” She laughed….
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Her Coffee, Her City, Her Life
I met her on a Wednesday while I was sitting in the city centre, and she happened to be at the table next to mine. She was on her own, but there was something very settled about her, the kind of presence that doesn’t look like it’s waiting for company….
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Odd and Beautiful!
There’s something very reassuring about being “normal.” Normal people wake up at reasonable hours, eat sensible breakfasts, maintain well-behaved hobbies, and rarely insert sharp objects into their own eyes. But if history has taught us anything, it’s that the people who changed our understanding of the world were rarely tidy,…