It is a stretch to call this one a royal patient, but it might amuse. For a while I was a member of the Royal Air Force volunteer reserve. I may have mentioned before that our whole family was into gliding, big time in my youth. When I got to Cambridge University I found, like […]
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A Bollywood mega star was in the news recently, having contracted and happily survived COVID19 Amitabh Bachchan had another close brush with mortality almost 40 years ago, having suffered an injury while filming on location. The severity of his illness led to uncontrolled bleeding, suspected to be coming from an acute stomach “stress ulcer”. I
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I was about to perform an endoscopy procedure on a prominent member of the British cabinet who was known to enjoy a drink or two, who, also like Churchill, had changed political party allegiances several times over his career. When I asked him to turn onto his left side, he turned to the right. He
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Although working in the National Health Service at The Middlesex hospital in London, I (like many) had to run a small private practice on the side to survive. I learned a lesson rather early from one patient who claimed to be a famous film star in his country in (or next to) the Mediterranean. He
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This story starts with a phone call in May 1994 from the embassy of an oil-rich country in the Middle East. “We want you to come and treat an important person. I have arranged for a plane to collect you tomorrow. Bring any assistants and equipment that you need. Would that be convenient?” Hell no,
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Bonnie has finished the illustrations, which are brilliant, as always. Cristina is melding them with the text and we will be publishing shortly. Here is the gang setting up camp and hang gliding!
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I take a pause from spilling beans on royal and famous patients to let y’all know that Joseph Leung and I have just published the 3rd edition of our ERCP book. For anyone interested I am pasting the introduction. Developments in ERCP over 50 years Attempts at endoscopic cannulation of the papilla of Vater were
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In the early 1980s the gulf countries had a lot of oil money but very few health resources. As a result, many patients came to London (and Germany) for treatment. They were certainly welcomed by those with private practices in Harley Street and elsewhere, including me. For a while I was the primary contact for
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It has been my privilege to try to help thousands of patients since becoming a doctor in 1963. Many are memorable for variety of reasons, some good and a few better forgotten. The royal and famous bring interesting challenges, and I take the liberty of recounting some, albeit anonymously. I shall start with a call
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Some time ago you kindly subscribed to my website https://petercottontales.com. That URL has been transferred to a new site which deals only with my children’s books about Fred the Snake. This new site https://drpetercotton.com is designed to accomodate my other personal and medical interests and general blogs. I recently posted 4 blogs about my journey
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