Good Bye Doctor Crippen

http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/: Farewell Dr Crippen, Godspeed


Dr Da Vinci does not know who Dr Crippen is, but it feels like we have been friends for a very long time.

He was one of the first doctors on the medical blogosphere.

I started reading your blog as a medical student, now a doctor with several years experience, it remains one of the first pages I check after my email every morning.

You may not have an MBE or an excellence award Dr Crippen. You may not be a 'Patient Dignity Champion' or sit on any bureaucratic leadership boards.

But you have been instrumental in fighting for the rights of patients and doctors, you have been our voice for the best part of the last decade and for that Dr friend, I salute you.


“By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction”

William Osler quotes (Canadian Physician, 1849-1919)


I wish you a fruitful and enjoyable retirement. I hope you get to take on new hobbies, see new places, hear new points of view, learn new skills and generally make the most of this new and exciting phase of your life.

Kudos To You! And thanks again.


Dr Da Vinci.