Our man from Pluto asks all of us - alas, clinical and academic staff - to attend the medical grand round.
Why, this weekly exercise has degraded in the past 10 or 15 years from the pilgrimage on Saturday to a kind of supplementary lecture for medical students - with a summer holiday. To add oil on the fire the extra-terrestrial reminds us to put up questions from the materials covered for the final examination.
Nonetheless, the audience is drying up - both in their number and enthusiasm. (I can see JW works very hard to boost up questions and discussions but - as he understands very well from the stock market - you just hurt yourself when trying to catch a falling knife.) There is, seriously, only one way to improve the grand round: the man from Pluto himself be there - even for topics unrelated to the endoderm, joins the discussion, and while waiting for the lift downstairs and seeing some medical officers hurrying off work, says "Are you going to the round ?"
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