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I'm not sure I can collect my thoughts. Certainly not all in one go. They won't fit in a display case, anyway. You have to go down to the archives, and poke about, finding all the things you knew and had forgotten. In this vein, and a self-indulgent mood, I read through my blogs, and a lot of yours, some old posts, some from before my time, and some emails to friends, and I found exactly what I was expecting to find, if I looked. A theme, or a pattern, or a common thread, or a few. I guess I ...

I love singing. Even if I'm feeling awful before hand, it never fails to re-energise me and I end up a creature of happy by the end of rehearsal. I've been singing in a choir for 11 (I think) years now, but it's pretty much one of the things that has stayed constant in my life. That being said, although all the choirs I've sung in have been affiliated with each other, it's still always weird having to adapt to a new level of expectations, new repertoire and most importantly, new people. The choir ...

Ethics is a word commonly associated with medicine, especially the negative adjective form - unethical. A lot of things are unethical. Providing opportunity for abortion and not proving this opportunity. Not informing your patient about upcoming procedures. Most aspects related to medical ethics are regulated by law. Where I live (don't bother asking, trying to keep up the illusion of privacy), there is a specific law protecting the staff and patients of psychiatric hospitals. The dementia-care ...