I am tired but satisfied.
It’s Thursday 19th September, about 2 o’clock and I am sat upstairs in the back room of the Carriage Hall in Nottingham.
It is a beautiful venue for the business course and it is heading towards the end of day 10.
One of my greatest mentors in my career, Professor John Gibson, is speaking downstairs on Leadership and his content has been exceptional and really has blown the course away, better than I could have expected.
John provided a masterclass yesterday on facial pain and local anaesthetics and an ITI study club last night on medicine, then today spoke on this.
Later today we will host a masterclass medical legal issues with Neil Taylor from TDS.
I am tired.
These days take a lot out of me.
I haven’t ridden my bike yesterday or today, but I will be back on it again tomorrow.
I was able to sit up stairs and catch up with my emails and I have had an email back from Kath (who runs our research) to say our quality of life study on immediate full arch reconstruction is showing fantastic positive results, which are statistically significant, although that is not interesting if you’re not us, but it is very interesting if you are.
We had fish and chips for lunch today from the fish and chip van at the carriage hall, you don’t get that on a lot of courses.
Harmeet (who is one of our super awesome delegates who has been on many of our courses) and I headed out and we ordered ice lollies as we sat outside at the end of the course lunch.
It certainly beats working for a living.
The funny thing is though, in a small way, after these two days I will be much better at what I do in clinic and much better at what I do trying to run the clinic.
Today started by taking John Gibson to the building site to show him what was going on.
Again, it would be easier for me to take this for granted, but I shouldn’t and I don’t.
Just at the minute, just now, all of the plates are spinning.
I guess that must mean that there is a crisis around the corner, but that is ok, that is what I signed up for.
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