{"id":5796,"date":"2021-11-22T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T13:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2021-11-22T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T13:17:03","slug":"speaker-meeting-8th-november-2021-the-funny-side-of-medicine-in-general-and-anaesthesia-in-particular-sir-peter-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/2021\/11\/22\/speaker-meeting-8th-november-2021-the-funny-side-of-medicine-in-general-and-anaesthesia-in-particular-sir-peter-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Meeting 8th November 2021: The Funny Side of Medicine \u2013 In general and anaesthesia in particular &#8211; Sir Peter Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/11\/Sir-Peter-November-2021.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5798\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/11\/Sir-Peter-November-2021-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/11\/Sir-Peter-November-2021-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/11\/Sir-Peter-November-2021.png 647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>Sir Peter first described the definition of funny \u201cFunny Medical and Nursing staff and what people get up to\u201d.\u00a0 He asked \u201cdoes medicine need to be funny\u201d?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He showed photographs of St Bartholomew\u2019s Hospital London where he trained and photographs of the Professors who taught him.\u00a0 He told us how they used rhymes to remember things such as parts of the anatomy and described how different from now it was then on the wards at Christmas and the fun they had carving the turkey. \u00a0He also described the fun they had with eminent people.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was important to have something to keep up the morale of staff when disasters happened such as the bombings of Old Bailey and Tower of London.\u00a0 There were lots of anecdotes about how things were done and the fun they had too.\u00a0 He also showed letters sent to patients where words could be misunderstood.\u00a0 He went on to talk about events that had happened when he was working abroad and ended by talking about today\u2019s anaesthetics &#8211; laughing gas and Propofal.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Peter first described the definition of funny \u201cFunny Medical and Nursing staff and what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":5798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supper-meetings-read-what-our-speakers-have-to-say"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Speaker Meeting 8th November 2021: The Funny Side of Medicine \u2013 In general and anaesthesia in particular - Sir Peter Simpson | News | Blog | Events | SI Bristol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bristol : Blog &amp; News : Speaker Meeting 8th November 2021: The Funny Side of Medicine \u2013 In general and anaesthesia in particular - Sir Peter Simpson : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bristol . 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