Walking round ‘the block’

My old mate Ron was well into his late 80s. but remained sprightly and full of beans. He always told me that he attributed his youthfulness to his daily habit of walking twice around the block. I found out the true story of his activity regime when called upon to do a home visit when […]

GadgetWatch: Storm OIC Missile Launcher

Ouch! OK, who did that. I know it was one of you. Ouch! Imagine the havoc you could wreak at work with a missile launcher that you control remotely over the internet. Dream Cheeky has just the weapon you need. http://www.dreamcheeky.com/storm-oic-missile-launcher Office warfare has gone global. The Storm O.I.C. (Over Internet Control) Missile Launder has […]

Read this Before Our Next Meeting

Do you sometimes feel that your job is more about attending meetings then actually doing the real work? Do you find meetings productive and inspiring? Seth Godin’s Domino Project has been a publishing sensation since its launch earlier this year. http://thedominoproject.com The latest title ‘Read this before our next meeting’ was released today. The book […]

50 Writing Tools from Poynter

So, you want to become a writer. Pointer.org trains journalists. Their 50 writing tools can be downloaded as a PDF free of charge, or you can listen to the complete series of 50 podcasts available through the iTunes university. I think that this post would have been better if I had paid more attention to […]

The Challenge of Managing Multimorbidity

To a very great extent, success in Chronic Disease Management is concerned with managing multi-morbidty – the co-occurence of two or more chronic conditions in one patient. In the primary care setting, 50% of patients aged over 65 have three or more chronic conditions, and 30% have five or more. The patients enrolled in clinical […]