🤔 you can’t always teach someone to care. You do or you don’t. We’re often trying to “keep it together” outside while hurting on the inside for our patients. Excellent eg, of empathy and emotional intelligence Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP Prof Michelle D. Lazarus Generation Medics 💙 Exeter Med School Medical Schools Council

🤔after negative subculture reported in government, recent events offer hope for the future- #Respect festival Exeter CitizensAdviceExeter, Exeter Med School Grad ball 👩‍🎓👨🏽‍🎓 University of Exeter & loving cultural representation anita rani in a sari BBC with 13M viewers #jubilee & Ed Sheeran + curry!

Excellent book & portrait Dr Lindsey Fitzharris on Harold Gillies rebuilding faces of soldiers WW1 #TheFacemaker Pioneering & moving reconstructions with nearly 300K soldiers on Western Front facially disfigured Reaffirms #plasticsurgery as evolutive specialty BAPRASvoice PLASTA

Stunning surprise from lovely patient left at hospital reception today THE SCIENCE : Prefrontal & limbic cortex, nucleus accumbens ➡️ pleasure & motivation induced by dopamine, progesterone & oxytocin THE RESULTS : 🍰shared & loved by all. Thoughtful gestures mean so much !

40th Anniversary since👨🏽‍🎓 Medicine/healthcare echo life on blue 🌏 Some days tranquil sea & tread water; others stormy & feel submerged Stay afloat Take time to select your own path - often it beckons you “The wand chooses the wizard..it’s not always clear why”. J.K. Rowling

How proud am I today? 2022 new 🧑🏼‍🎓👩‍🎓👨🏽‍🎓University of Exeter Exeter Med School UoE Medical Imaging Exeter Medical Sciences Exeter Med School Truro & intercalates starting their professional lives🔬🩺🩻. Doesn’t get better! 😊 “If you can only be one thing in life..be kind!” “We all dine at the banquet of consequences”.

Sometimes your day job sucks. Now and then something wonderful happens. Someone you never really knew or recall comes up to thank you for what you did, you said, a passing comment, nod or smile. That was all it was. It didn’t feature on your radar but it featured on theirs.

Lost my mum today. 90y & 7 coronary stents but mentally agile, frail ready to go. Feeling self conscious asks “Do you think anyone will stare at an elderly Asian in a pink sari in a wheelchair?” No I relied there are always loads in Dorset No what? No one did! Live life!

Sometimes things in life don’t have to be prefect and just good enough really will do 🤔 Improvised ligature around a deeply split fig tree & wooden prop are just enough to keep growing & yield delicious gifts. Great metaphor for life. Tx for all the messages of support.

Brilliant to see saris🥻in Exeter worn with grace elegance & style at St Luke’s Chapel University of Exeter for service of thanksgiving for my mother’s life. 🙏🏽Hannah Alderson Community of St Luke 💙 Co-op Funeralcare @UofEChaplaincy @KateMoreton She would be tickled pink! 🌹

Always relevant, incredibly topical, death remains an inescapable fact of life. Superb new book Let's Talk About Loss shares experiences. Compelling conversations help navigate all types of loss in a safe supportive space, renewing life after bereavement. Photo at launch! @KateMoreton

Excellent University of Exeter look forward to the opportunity #Racism exists & we don’t enter the conversation as equals but we can alter perceptions & perspectives Active listening should be a universal & legitimate currency. “Where do we want to go and how do we want to get there?”

#askray what’s the one thing you would want to see happen to make things more level for the hard of hearing community?

Almost everything you possess is worth something to someone - knowledge, friendship, your time & love! 😁to gift medical & surgical texts to students, surgeons in training, colleagues & libraries. “Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.”

An annual day of celebration merits pulling all the stops out! Incredibly proud of our graduates University of Exeter University of Exeter Faculty of Health & Life Sci Devon Lieutenancy

Random! Watching 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇭🇹 Lionesses. Looked out of rain soaked window. Pair of wild Canada geese viewing the match too! 🤔maybe dropped in to see the goal after nil draw 🇨🇦 v 🇳🇪? 😁

🤔Remain concerned about correspondence from the DWP who sent me this notification... While reasonably accurate, describing me as "The Old Grumpy" does feel a tad unnecessary in formal letters!

Brilliant to see the arrival of this incredible #genetic sequencer - it can look at almost all of an individual’s genetic information in a single test within 24 hours. Will form an integral part of our dedicated joint NHS and university research facility. National Institute for Health and Care Research NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)

Love living & working in this part of the country Devon Life As a foodie, look forward to this at 9.00pm More4. What's On Devon #Devon memorabletv.com/episodes/remar…

Superb service today to say farewell to Bishop Robert Atwell #ExeterCathedral on his retirement. 🎶 choral tributes, anthems & farewells simply stunning! Devon Lieutenancy