Friday, 24 June 2011

Mr Nunn Orthopaedic Surgeon and David Cameron PM do their best by Dr Helen Bright

Click on the photograph to watch the video


Mr Nunn, Orthopaedic Surgeon who would know only to well what happens when infection spreads through the bones and kills objected to filming crew not complying with hospital hygiene rules. It certainly is best to be safe. David Cameron, PM did the best he could in the situation and asked filming crew to come back after they take their ties off. It is great to have PM who is not a tyrant.

Under Labour government doctors could not assert their authority in the interests of patients, but I think the times need to change at St Thomas Hospital, London too. What about changing some appointments at the board?

Mr Nunn should come back to his work if this incident is the only reason why he was asked to have some time off work by hospital management.

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Edith Piaf: La Foule (The Crowd)

Please, click on photograph to listen to brilliant singing by Edith Piaf.
There is power in numbers to bring people together but also to make them part for ever. It happens in politics, science, social interactions, and what not.

Perhaps, even English word "fool" meaning deficient in judgment has the same origin as "foule" in French.

One can think of so many examples where crowds stopped something beautiful from happening: patients and doctors separated because of the mobbing of doctors(or patients), mothers separated from children because of injustice and prejudice against them, couples thorn apart by nationalism, and so on.
Lyrics of La Foule:
Je revois la ville en fete et en délire
Suffoquant sous le soleil et sous la joie
Et j'entends dans la musique les cris, les rires
Qui éclatent et rebondissent autour de moi
Et perdue parmi ces gens qui me bousculent
Étourdie, désemparée, je reste là
Quand soudain, je me retourne, il se recule,
Et la foule vient de me jeter entre ses bras...

Emportés par la foule qui nous traîne
Nous entraîne
Écrasés l'un contre l'autre
Nous ne formons qu'un seul corps
Et le flot sans effort
Nous pousse, enchaînés l'un et l'autre
Et nous laisse tous deux
Épanouis, enivrés et heureux.
Entraînés par la foule qui s'élance
Et qui danse
Une folle farandole
Nos deux mains restent soudées
Et parfois soulevés
Nos deux corps enlacés s'envolent
Et retombent tous deux
Épanouis, enivrés et heureux...

[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/la-foule-lyrics-edith-piaf.html ]


Et la joie éclaboussée par son sourire
Me transperce et rejaillit au fond de moi
Mais soudain je pousse un cri parmi les rires
Quand la foule vient l'arracher d'entre mes bras...

Emportés par la foule qui nous traîne
Nous entraîne
Nous éloigne l'un