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#hello my name is...

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Alan H
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#hello my name is...

#1 Post by Alan H » July 25th, 2016, 12:34 am

Anyone who has been in hospital in the past few years may well have seen staff wearing badges like this and introducing themselves to patients and relatives:

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The #hello my name is... campaign was started by Dr Kate Granger and has become a huge success, spreading worldwide. A remarkable achievement made even more so because she was diagnosed with a rare are aggressive form of cancer in 2011. She died on Saturday, aged just 34.

There have been many tributes to her on the news today, but this piece by her friend says it better than them all. Read more about this remarkable woman and the many other things she achieved (including the £250,000 she raised for charity just a few days ago): A tribute to Dr Kate Granger – Natalie Silvey
Alan Henness

There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
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Alan H
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#2 Post by Alan H » August 4th, 2016, 11:59 pm

From BBC Breakfast.
Alan Henness

There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
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#3 Post by Dave B » August 5th, 2016, 8:42 am

Yes, I heard a bit of her interview on the radio and felt quite moved.

There have been attempts at this sort if thing in the past but this one seems to be a monument to the lady.

Let's hope so, medicine needs re-humanising in some areas.
"Look forward; yesterday was a lesson, if you did not learn from it you wasted it."
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