This one is medical, but I will try to make it intelligible. EPISOD stands for “Evaluating Predictors and Interventions in Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction”. That pesky sphincter described by Mr Oddi is the valve that controls the flow of juices from the liver and pancreas into the small intestine (duodenum). If it overacts it […]
Our EPISOD research project finishes after 9 years. Read More »
Jodi got there first, with her first grandchild And then Andy did it, with a lovely family party and a little Irish golf And now Nicky and Tripp. Nicky had a smart dinner at a famous restaurant near their home in Bucks, UK (near Oxford). Looks like fun
How come the children are all turning 50? Read More »
Dorcas and my older brother John came to visit. Dorcas and I go back to the late 1960s when she typed our early endoscopy reports at St Thomas’s Hospital in London. Happily she agreed to be my main admin support when I joined the medical staff of The Middlesex Hospital in 1973, and also supervised
Special visitors, Dorcas Chapman and brother John Read More »
My former wife, Patricia, died peacefully at our son Andy’s home in Bury St Edmunds, on October 15th. Her lungs gave up. Paddy and I met and were married when I was still a student, in 1960, and built a family together for 25 years. Sadly, our relationship did not survive my career move to
A sad happy week in England Read More »
The last 2 weeks have been eventful! We spent 2 nights at the wonderful Swag Country Inn in the North Carolina mountains. The purpose was to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary (September 28th), which we did in style, helped by 7 other special Deweesian couples. The Swag (www.theswag.com) is an amazing place, hosted for ever by
Celebrating our 25th Wedding Anniversary Read More »
Thank you Alli Elmunzer for your expertise
Great family photos; summer on Dewees Island Read More »
Over the last few weeks I have rediscovered and written about my first endoscopy assistants (Sue Wallace and Judy Caddy) at St Thomas’s in London in the late 1960s, and visited and honored my best old friend (Dick McCray) from 1971. And the fun continues, even further back into the 1950s…. Last weekend I
Down memory lane into the 1950s. Reconnecting with John Willson and John Bulmer. Read More »
I went to visit Dick McCray this week. Sadly he is unwell. We met first in 1971 in New York. I was on my first trip to USA, traveling across west to east on my way back to England after spending 3 weeks in Japan looking at and learning a breakthrough technique that became known
Honoring my best old friend Read More »
Amazing emails last week, from Sue and Judy, who helped me get started on my endoscopy career. Around 1970 I was running a small GI endoscopy service at St Thomas’s Hospital in London (although still officially in training). There were few resources and no one knew how it would all blossom into a huge industry.
Wow! Messages from 45 years ago Read More »
My recent posts have been mainly about my books, now 5 about Fred the friendly snake, and my memoirs, “The tunnel at the end of the light”. The latter tells about my career as a gastroenterologist (a specialist who helps patients to get square meals through round holes). I am reminded that I stopped doing
Five years already! Read More »
