Reflections

Lifelong learning is a professional obligation medical professionals sign up for. Reflection has been a powerful personal vehicle in this regard throughout my career.

I have always reflected on my work; but here I do some of it in the open. Each entry follows a simple structure, what happened, so what, and now what, and records the time it took, because these reflections also form part of my appraisal and revalidation with the GMC.

Reflection is about my own practice and learning, so nothing on this page identifies a patient or a clinical colleague, and no confidential detail appears. If a reflection cannot be shared safely in public, it stays in my private record instead. Peers who appear do so with their explicit consent; where I remember someone I worked with in public life, I do so as a tribute.