I think that I will have to cease putting out this collection of memoirs. I am sad to do so in many ways and I am grateful from the depth of my heart to all the lovely friends—and strangers—who have read and commented on them (after all, a stranger is only a friend...
I have almost come to the end of the material I have written for my memoirs and I want to thank all who have helped in this, giving me great encouragement for what initially was just to amuse my family and leave a legacy of my life thoughts. I have a couple more...
Read Part 1 here. My diaries for 1980 to 1984 do mention some of the key early contributors, as there are occasional appointments and meetings regarding the hospice. Those early years, before it became an official charity in 1984, also note team meetings with the...
My next two pieces of memoir relate to the setting up of the palliative care service in Cardiff, in which I was involved almost from the beginning, and still am today. It would be rare if anyone could claim to be the sole generator of an idea or institution, and I...
I started sending out these pieces of memoirs by beginning with the time I was in hospital in 2009, at a turning point in my life, having had to have life-saving surgery of the open heart. So I think it would be nice to draw some of the stories together, returning to...
So much of my life—indeed of anyone’s life—is concerned with communication. It’s something, of course, which many of us have as the core of our work—from salesmanship, advertising, journalism, and the performance arts to my own specialty of psychiatry....
