Tranmer House

Saturday fifth of October 2019, visited Tranmer House.

Sutton Hoo.

Good times, whoo hoo.

Thinking about the film drowning in plastic.

And about Kate Tempest.

James Corden sounds like her in the wedding scene, series 3, Gavin and Stacey.

Hold your Own

 

And my mate

Bluebells

Native bluebells have competitive advantage over Spanish.

 

Good.

Judgement Day

"Before you judge my life, my past or my character... Walk in my shoes, walk the path I have traveled, live my sorrow, my doubts, my fear, my pain and my laughter.. Remember, everyone has a story. When you've lived my life then you can judge me"

These are some lines form a Depeche Mode song called Walking in My Shoes.

I prefer Enjoy the Silence. Best played loud and live. Oh to walk in their shoes.

Well, maybe not Dave Gahan's ("four brushes with death").

I went to see Depeche Mode once, a big stadium gig as part of their Songs of Faith and Devotion tour.

Get Right With Me

1993.

Gahan got his job by singing Bowie's Heroes. Maybe this is how he sang it.


Another song about walking in your shoes: https://open.spotify.com/track/0vsuDbZZ7llAd299f0xxc3

 It's so cold that...


I can’t link properly using my phone.



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Error...

Two sides of the error coin, are those of

• learning from error, and 
• punishment for error.

Dr Bawa Gaba has done both.

And her colleagues in the wider health care family too.

Office discussion today included whether Gestalt is something you can be taught.

I'm sure it's something you can learn from error and error and error...

Girls, beautiful.

In draft but publishing as a work in progress:

 

I've heard this incredible woman speak and think that the idea that she is helping more people by putting herself out there than she could have done as a jobbing breast surgeon is worthy of reflection.

The other thing that struck me about this article, in a way which it didn't when I heard her speak before, was the idea of getting your own disease, in her case breast cancer.

I am not sure which of my patients' diseases to chose from; MI, stroke, Pneumonia, PE, major injury, depression. I could go on.

I suppose my learning is to think ahead and be ready, have the affairs sorted, enjoy life in the meantime, and... "Don't go to sleep on an argument".

Talking about death, a talk at the recent Royal College of Emergency Medicine conference in Belfast was on The Dying, i.e. those patients for whom resuscitation might not be the best option.

A speaker also recommended Being Mortal, Atul Gawande (who also wrote Better, and The Checklist Manifesto).

 

This conversation is continuing what with the coronavirus, and on going non-coronavirus disease.

 

Death literacy is a thing, and lack of it. The expression "passed away" persists (a bit like"A&E" for Emergency Medicine and Emergency Departments).

 

A growing movement called Compassionate Communities looks to empower communities to support themselves.

 

A response to resource deficiency but the right thing to do anyway.  

A band that plays music for weddings and funerals. Presumably this particular track, Kalashnikov (https://youtu.be/UqOL7LOR6ko) is for weddings. My parents might not understand it at my funeral, but my friends would, for sure.

My beautiful daughters would appreciate the holding up of a light https://open.spotify.com/track/3ACZrIdyipWtpXDtW1Ofxx?

Scenario fulfilment

I've learnt a lot from watching programmes about air crash investigation. Bea Flight 548 stuck in my mind for a number of reasons;

•  it occurred near Staines,
•  it involved a stall (too much nose up)
•  there were lots of human factors at play (probably including pilot illness)

Wikipedia article
You tube clip of programme

Another crash worth understanding is the Mount Erebus disaster, a New Zealand plan crashing into Mount Erebus in Antarctica.

• More to it than meets the eye
• PTSD

Yet another is this incident, not really a crash, but a direct hit.

Possibly a result of "a simultaneous psychological condition (...), called 'scenario fulfilment', which is said to occur when persons are under pressure. In such a situation, the men will carry out a training scenario, believing it to be reality while ignoring sensory information that contradicts the scenario. In the case of this incident, the scenario was an attack by a lone military aircraft."

I can see this occurring during simulated scenario training in emergency medicine whereby candidates carry out a training scenario believing the training scenario to be that of a certain condition, only for the trainer to be running a scenario of an entirely different condition , or reality.

And in actual practice.