the corridors were full and so were the vestibules every hour of the day and night crowds mobs of all ages and origins whispering horrible things how they all felt on their last legs and that they'd rather croak there sitting on the tiles than be sent home to suffer again #Céline

My very first published paper in JNNP a case report ⁦@JNNP_BMJ⁩

Johnny Clarke's views on the High Speed train- his 2013 poem on the death of William Huskisson by the Rocket. I took the train from Lime Street to Edge Hill with this poem being played in every carriage. Unforgettable @davidswift87 #SoundCloud

In the 200th year of the British railway system, remember the important Rainhill trials and the Rocket and the disgraceful continuing neglect of the Transpennine lines Liverpool- Manchester-Leeds-Hull-Newcastle

William Osler’s magnificent epitaph ‘i taught medical students in the wards’ I cant imagine any doctor wanting to have ‘i taught medical students in art galleries and on Zoom’ And yet it is happening @Richard56 @weatherallmw

'Charing Cross hospital was just a cop's hangout...he stuck to the London...We started at snails pace...Tottenham Court Road, the Strand then the East streets...giddy up horsey...it was some haul. Cascade trusted only the London Hospital. #LouisferdinandDestouches #Guignolsband

People who complain GPs and even some neurologists dont understand Parkinsons miss the point. GPs need 30 minutes and neurologists an hour for a first neurological consultation. This is not recognised in the private emporia or NHS, where greater value is put on useless scans

Soul Train Chicago 1972 to the Pier 75 @doufous @NorthernSoul73 https://t.co/iUPT0K5KHZ via @YouTube

'"The London, in the East End wasn't a posh hospital. They were waiting for benefactors who had to be begged!...it was written on all the doors that they were waiting for them, and urgently...in pleading terms! The philanthropists took their time" #Guignolsband @EastLondonHistory

I am reading Céline in French, which is testing, but fun. I have come across a long description of the London Hospital, Whitechapel, extracts from which I will post in the coming days #LouisFerdinandDestouches #Guignolsband

Why don’t the government take heed of proper doctors like ⁦@dr_mattmorgan? Its because they live in a world where escalation of promises is routine and believe doctors resent accountability and diminished control

@ajlees @QMUL @bartsandlondon @NottingHillEds For a neurologist, every page of Brainspotting is like the "madeleine" of Proust.

I learned recently that my book Brainspotting is being recommended to medical students at my alma mater. Nothing could be a greater honour and cant be worse than Munthe’s fisherman’s tale that i was recommended @QMUL @bartsandlondon @NottingHillEds

I never feared the critic’s pen To live by my renown I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down John Clare 1841 #BrainspottingAdventuresinNeurology @NottingHillEds @MirabeauPress

The litany of dreary inglorious statistics uttered by television football commentators like Darren Fletcher leaves me no alternative but to turn off the sound. It is as sterile as VAR and I suspect has a hidden gaming agenda. I wonder how Shanks would have reacted?

Putting some bluebeat out for a change memories of the Mingo on Wardour St @yerwha https://t.co/5uNLwpHu5R via @YouTube

‘Avec ses noirs enchantements, Son cortège infernal d’alarmes Ses fioles de poison, ses larmes Ses bruits de chaîne et d’ossements! Le vin de l’assassin #Baudelaire #LesfleursduMal

Clare’s second visit to London in 1822 Could have been the King of the St Giles Blackbirds who had gone to beg outside St Pauls Clare related to the outsider and the outcast in his poetry ⁦@JohnClareSoc⁩

‘If I cannot find peace at home I dare not venture to look for it out of my own country and therefore my emigration is but a short way’ #JohnClare @JohnClareSoc @kovesi1 @JohnClarePoetry My people must have thought similarly to work in torrid mills and down Lancashire pits

As always i kicked off with Robert Hutchison’s petition to God which my teachers at the London Hospital Whitechapel tattooed into my brain. #MentoredbyaMadman #RoyalLondonHospital ⁦@bialfoundation⁩