July 27th: tests, diagnoses

It was fun having Gwen and her daughter to visit. We laughed a lot and reminisced on old times in the General; mostly the amusing side of it all. It did us a power of good.




















In school last week and I realise there is a connection between Education and the Health Service. Whilst in Education we frequently spend so much time testing children (at government request; SATS, GCSE’s etc) that we forget about their learning and emotional needs. Similarly in the NHS we diagnose ad infinitum sometimes losing the patient in a maelstrom of invasive and painful procedures. We forget about quality of life. There is a lesson to be learned from both sides.