How about this 12 word review? “This study doesn’t have a control group because it doesn’t need one.”

Congratulation to you all, great work.

Do you know someone whose baby or child needs or has has surgery? They might like to take part in this survey being conducted by the NPEU-Oxford to try to better understand what ‘successful treatment’ means to parents and carers.

Interesting study on planned home and birth centre birth in a US setting with a well-integrated model of care. Here’s the link to the paper itself journals.lww.com/greenjournal/f…

I normally only agree to review papers where I think that the abstract suggests that the paper may be publishable, and I try to make constructive comments/suggestions. But I recently found myself becoming….. 😱….reviewer 2! Time to stop reviewing perhaps.

Do you have views on #AssistedDying and whether it should become legal in the UK? Today is your last change to participate in a parliamentary survey seeking views on this topic. It only takes a few minutes. smartsurvey.co.uk/s/M66AML/

Blavatnik School of Government at dusk. #Oxford #Blavatnik

… but only if you want a graduation certificate in Wingdings?

A friend (a Director of Public Health) advised me that if I wanted to raise an issue as a patient I should make it clear I was “raising a concern” and “not making a complaint” to avoid my letter going in the complaints pile and getting a defensive non-response!

I got to be a last-minute keynote speaker at a conference and suspect it was because they realised the conference brochure was going to look like this! I obliged by providing a photo for them to use of me in a pink outfit so they could add a little colour to the overwhelming grey

Pursuing perfection: the triumph of hope over experience