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Merry Christmas – War is Over (if you want it)

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Lets get this first bit over with quickly… You might think that because I haven’t posted a blog for a year, I might have nothing to say. Not been up to much. 9.00 – 5.00 office worker, nose pressed flat against someone’s shoulder in the District Line crush to and from the Royal[…]

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The Queen’s Message 2014

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So lets imagine the Queen, a teenage war time ambulance driver and mechanic, this year decides to ditch her carefully crafted annual Xmas address to the nation and instead reflect upon the history and meaning of ambulance services. We’d switch on the TV, ‘A Message from the Queen’ in important[…]

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One of the Best Days of My Life

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So next week, my temporary contract with the Barts Centre For Trauma Sciences winds up. And how many times can you say that your job has changed your life? Here are some experiences/ images that I will take with me to my grave. 1) Shooting a video, with fellow Australian[…]

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A New Job Involving Sex and Death

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Sex and Death A London Ambulance Service union official commented to me a few months ago that the very nature of emergency services work is that front-line staff have to “rush into situations from which human instinct tells everyone else to RUN AWAY”.  Perhaps the medical situation that most people[…]

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London, Sept 2013 – Emergency!

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“Who has a why to live can bear most any how” Neitzsche Freedom House In July, I stopped over in Pittsburgh, caught up with some of my dear friends there, and made a remarkable discovery.  In the late 1960s, a bunch of Pittsburgh doctors and civil rights activists set up[…]

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