On Friday 22 October 2004 20:00, Michael Leuty wrote:
> On Friday 22 Oct 2004 14:08, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> > This includes what was said but not broadcast. A good thing.
>
> Sorry Adrian, you are being more elusive than usual. Que?
Dr Professor mandarin Halligan is reported to have met with 20 000 doctors.
Presumably the habit of applying arithmetic to such figures is not common, but
the only experience I have had of this talented, dynamic and senior gentleman
was very negative - he, or his management group, had wholly misjudged the
nature of the audience (ordinary GPs selected to represent their colleagues,
along with the more finely super-selected ones in the GPC, with a taste for
facts and details) and he started off wrongly, did not adjust his aim when I
believe even I would have realised that my presentation was a fart at the
altar, and failed to impress in the direction I assume he intended to.
It triggered a slow burn.
Making the assumption of mediocrity - about us, not him - one might assume
that 20 000 doctors have been disimpressed in like fashion, in which case a
rapid exit from the country might be explicable... but I think not, and he
really has found a higher post in Ireland, so therefore without even dividing
one man by 20 000 meetings with, I feel able to discount what was said.
In the manner of a jersey knitted by a relative, nice though it looks, if one
bit unravels then it isn't going to last - I agree, the rest of the
transcript looks an impressive account of effort and achievement in lines
with the best traditions of all sorts of things.
> Granger sounded a cool customer.
Accounts from elsewhere describe a very hot one, swearing and threatening. At
least one must be a semblance.
He has not yet been afforded the opportunity to meet me, so I shall reserve my
judgement for the moment.
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