Thursday, January 28, 2010

sit back, relex, and enjoy your sleep


Now thanks to Air New Zealand - sleeping flat in cattle class is soon becoming a reality.

Monday, January 11, 2010

a great loss

I heard that Dr Black, one of the most astute physician in Auckland, died on Sunday at home.

He is arguably one of the most outspoken doctors in General Medicine at Auckland. His views often polarize his contemporaries. He is a dedicated doctor, with work ethics that frankly don't exist among the Generation Y era of doctors. He is a smart, bright and keen teacher. Every doctor who graduated from Auckland in the last 10 years would have learnt their pharmacology from him.

I worked with and for him as a first year registrar few years ago. I always thought it would be a privilege to work with him again, when I'm older, wiser and hopefully understand more of what he tries to teach. Sadly, that'll not happen.

The everyday practice of Medicine challenges our own mortality. It is with profound sadness that I learnt he departed us today.