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Giant Microbes! As a soft toy?

Hell's teeth. And this!? This website, Giant Microbes . COM , is selling soft toy Microbes. Presumably either to scare the living daylights out of kids - or act as a nouveau Med Student bedroom decoration device. Freaky. But cool.

Managed Health Care... Here I come!

Some news! I've packed in the stethoscope & otoscope. Handed the snotty noses over to someone else. And have moved into managed healthcare . Hot damn! What a rush! It's sad to be leaving some of the patients - who I really liked. I realised the other day how much of an influence I had (all Doctors have) in some people's lives. I'll miss hearing about the progress. And when I say progress, I don't mean medical. Who got their drivers license, picked a school for their kids or got the job they'd been hunting for size months. You get close. But we must move on. Doing: A) What makes us happy B) What challenges us C) Something which allows us to make the most impact. Sometimes I felt like I was wheelspinning in General Practice. Now, I have a chance to affect the bigger picture. And that thrills me. More on the job later... Give me a while to settle in, and I'll have some controversial views as usual. I must say... It's interesting to be "on the other...

We're back...

Salaam and good evenin'. We're back. All honeymooned. Fat. Tanned. Ain't it cool. Thailand was incredible... So rural - yet so connected. 20c per minute internet certainly beats a lot of SA joints. Anyway, it was great to get away and forget about high pressured Joburg life for a while. We see Manto's been busy getting editors arrested since we left? :) We're back. Post away. "Viewpoint" on Phi Phi Island... Divin'