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Unrequited love

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 23/12/21 18:00

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So, I promised that the blogs would get a little bit deep and a little bit weird as I head up to the celebration of a survival of 5 decades. 

I wrote about Billy Bragg in these pages and Billy Bragg brings me to the subject of unrequited love. 

In his song ‘The Saturday Boy’ which you can listen to here, he taught me what unrequited love was, at least in name, even though I’d experienced it in life. 

His immortal line “she taught me the meaning of unrequited, while she was giving herself for free at a party to which I was never invited”, just about sums up the whole unrequited love phenomenon. 

Only about 1,000 times we have created wonderful things here both in terms of experiences for patients or courses for dentists or conferences or peer review evenings or any number of things to try to help or collaborate or improve that we thought were totally amazing and wonderful, to find that nobody turns up. 

We had a fantastic peer review meeting two years ago in December at the Riverbank in Nottingham with mulled wine and minced pies and a great speaker who would make you think about how you were going about your working life. 

It was free and brilliant and almost nobody came. 

Recently, Angela Cowell who works with us invited her husband to speak at our ITI study club and peer review evening. 

David is a captain and a safety officer for an airline and was able to talk about what aviation has learnt that healthcare can take to make things better for patients. 

His discussion and explanation about capacity was totally moving and so insightful but almost everybody missed it because nobody came. 

We've had learning from failure conferences and DES (dentistry education & scones) as a takeoff from TED but still we can’t get engagement. 

Just because we think it’s brilliant doesn’t make it brilliant. 

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn’t mean they’ll fall in love back. 

Apparently there’s somebody out there for everyone though and so we keep inventing and keep trying, understanding that the joy is more in the process than in the outcome. 

 

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