The obituary by Charles Warlow of Ann McPherson showed that she was not only a bilingual but a trilingual clinician, and we have to ensure that her example will stimulate […]
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Muir Gray: Two cheers for bureaucracy, four cheers for ants
We are in the throes of debating the structure of the NHS for, I think, the 20th time in my professional life, but structure is, in my experience, of little […]
Muir Gray: Japan, a little good news
I have been to Japan on a number of occasions and learned a great deal from the people I have met there, and from what I have read. […]
Muir Gray: We need bilingual clinicians for population medicine
Without diluting the clinician’s traditional commitment to the individual patient, the clinical community also has a broader responsibility to the community that provides the resources for health services. The new responsibilities […]
Muir Gray: Bye Bye Quality 2.0
I received some criticism for the blog Bye Bye Quality (Hello Value), as a record company might have labelled it, but most reaction was positive. Where it was not this […]
Muir Gray: Viva Wittgenstein
The single greatest influence on my work has been the inscrutable, often incomprehensible Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher and MRC Lab Technician. Much of his writing I find very difficult. The early […]
Muir Gray: Bye Bye Quality
The nasal tones of the Everly Brothers, “Bye Bye Love, Hello Loneliness” are very familiar to people who were young in the fifties and healthcare now faces a similar paradigm shift from […]
Muir Gray: What is helping?
Raymond Tallis’ excellent Times article on Humanity on 17 February made me reflect on helping, a topic about which I had been forced to rethink by Edgar Schein’s new book […]