05.24.07
Doctor, Doctor, Doctor
I had another consultation with Dr Phil Johnson yesterday. We talked among other things about how others perceive my illness. He put it as “You’re neither terminaly ill nor terminaly well.” which made me laugh. It’s always nice having a chat with him. 
We also talked about how lots of money gets pumped into cancer research.. see below for something that helps in a small way with cancer care.
I’ve got a medical certificate for a further month from my own GP, which is making the wife worried about my return date. To get back in the swing of things I’ve got my work VPN access fixed (Thanks Jim!) and have started doing some reading of internal docs.
It was also nice to see the guys at the office in our new location. Sorry I didn’t sort lunch out. Marc being off sick with a fever through me. Hope you’re feeling better! It’s a nice quiet desk we’ve got, what a result! (James, Wei Li and I have had BIG problems with noise levels in the past).
A good while ago my sister, Dr Karen Lowton introduced me to the music of Adam Kay and Suman Biswas aka The Amateur Transplants – “two junior doctors who practice medicine with varying degrees of success.” The track was “Mr Burton” from their album “Fitness to Practice”. If you like Derek and Clive you’ll love these guys. 
I had wanted to play it to Dr J while we compared gadgets, but a software update had knocked out my phones ability to access the storage card properly.
10% of all proceeds go straight to Macmillan Cancer Relief.
BTW Karen, did you know searching for “Dr Karen Lowton” in Google results in a #1 match “Dr. Karen Lowton: Gerontology: King’s College London”. Searching for “Mark Emery” results in a hit for a substance I’ve no interest in whatsoever – I’ll stick to my Ibuprofen and Paracetamol.