Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction
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Dare Quam Accipere
My earliest memory of Thomas Guy was seeing him on his pedestal in the forecourt of Guy’s Hospital the day I came for my medical school interview. I wonder what he thought of this keen young man, wide-eyed and full of enthusiasm striding passed him towards his hoped-for future. I hope he was pleased with what he saw, for I would see him every day for many years to come. Occasionally I would remember to wish him a good morning or a good evening, and thank him for founding this great hospital all those years ago in 1721.
And so it was that fifty years ago I began my medical studies; and so it is this very day marks the fiftieth anniversary of the edition of the Guy’s Hospital Gazette that welcomed us all as students of one of the finest medical schools in the world. I hope all medical students everywhere beginning their own journeys this month will enjoy the words of Passim written by the then editors of the Gazette, Drs. Davis and Hicks. Their timely and inspiring words will serve them well, as they did us, in the years to come. Remember to highlight the text to enlarge it and read it more easily.
Much has changed over the past fifty years. Guy’s has joined Kings’s College Hospital and St Thomas’s Hospital and the combined institution is now known as the Guy’s King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine at Kings College London. The good news is that the editors of the GKT Gazette are developing an open access digital library that will collate all of the published issues since the inaugural Guy’s Hospital Gazette of 1872 , for which our thanks are very much in order.
This post is in response to Ben’s Daily Prompt: Reverse Shot. What’s your earliest memory involving another person? Recreate the scene — from the other person’s perspective.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy ii
Can there be a more dreamy place to dream than on this Umbrian rooftop on a warm summer’s eve?
Daily Prompt: Sweeping Motions
This painting from a few years ago, like Express Yourself, is all about sweeping motions creating an imagined landscape that could be described as somewhat dreamy…maybe!
The Monday Bouquet: October 13
Wishing everyone a Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Monday.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy
I dream my painting and I paint my dream
Vincent Van Gogh
I wonder how many paintings came from dreams in Vincent’s Room in the Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Remy, France.
Sweet Moon, I thank you for your sunny beams
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
The Tempest Act 4, scene 1. William Shakespeare
Was I still dreaming of the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich when I took this picture of the moon shining through our library window at 3:30 this morning?
The hall was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor, and the interior decorated by James Thornhill.
The wall and ceiling decorations of the hall depict the succession of English monarchs from William and Mary to George 1. The College was originally Greenwich Hospital where disabled sailors of the Royal Navy lived and were treated from 1692 1869.
The title quote is from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5 Scene 1.
An art walk en Provence
Nice
Aix-en-Provence
Antibes
Vence
“…Signs can direct us where to go, but they’re also pieces of art…” From Cheri’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs
Dr. John McCrae to be inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame announced its 2015 inductees today. The late Dr. John McCrae, a true Canadian Hero, together with the following five other great Canadians will become laureates in Winnipeg, Manitoba in April next year.
Dr. Alan Bernstein OC, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS, LL.D (Hon), DSc (Hon) (Toronto, ON)
Dr. Judith G. HallOC, MD, FRCS, FCAHS (Vancouver, BC)
Dr. Bernard LangerOC, MD, FRCPS (Toronto, ON)
The late Dr. John McCraeMD, MRCP, LCol (Guelph, ON, Montreal QC)
Dr. Julio MontanerMD, DSc (hon), FRCPC, FCCP, FACP, FRSC, OBC (Vancouver, BC)
Dr. Duncan G. SinclairDVM, PhD, FRCPS (hon) (Kingston, ON)
How fitting it is that in the centennial year of the beginning of the First World War Dr. McCrae is to be honoured in this way. Although Lieutenant Colonel McCrae died in January 1918, before the end of the war, his memory lives on in the poem he wrote on the battle field in May 1915. The words of In Flanders Fields have become embedded in both the conscience and the anthology of mankind, and the image of the poppy, described so poignantly in the poem, has become a universal sign and symbol for Remembrance.
In honour of today’s announcement here is the poem In Flanders Fields for those who may be reading it for the first time and which I had posted previously in June: Row on Row .
To learn more about Dr. McCrae and the other remarkable inductees this year visit the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
A Yellow Tale: part ii
“I couldn’t wait any longer and have assumed that our suspicions were correct and that you have indeed been followed. When I arrive I’ll wait in the lane beside the bookstore as planned. Perhaps it would be best if I dispose of the yellow hoodie and become a little less conspicuous. I hope you make it and we can finally stop being in transit all the time.”
to be continued…
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