Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Fallibilism

Have you ever heard or seen something odd, and shortly thereafter doubted whether it could have happened at all?
Heard on the BBC Radio4 programme PM, about an hour ago...
Eddie Mayer "We go now to Willie Notcutt, a surgeon at the Central Lancashire (it was actually Great Yarmouth - I was very fallible!) Hospital", followed by perfectly sensible interview about NHS funding.
Lancashire; Willie Notcutt? It couldn't be that somebody is tweaking Auntie Beeb's nose could it?
I remember from my days as a Med Lab Scientist getting a sample of tissue from a breast reduction, purportedly from a patient called Norma Stitz. I think that sort of thing is still going on.

Post script: Yes, there really is an anaesthetist called Willie Notcutt. He's quite famous through his association with a cannabis substitute called Sativa. It would have been so much more fun had he been a surgeon.

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