mutations of mortality

Random thoughts of Terry Hamblin about leukaemia, literature, poetry, politics, religion, cricket and music.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Socialism

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There is something attractive about the idea of socialism. Who could fail to be attracted by the ideal of giving to those who are needy and ...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Running with horses.

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Do you get thoroughly disgusted with the shams and morons that are served up to us daily as celebrities? There is so little to admire in our...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

More about Ronnie and June

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And so I did. By the time I had finished, Corky had stopped his cussing and struggling and was sleeping peacefully. Relieved that he had fin...
Monday, April 21, 2008

1 Timothy 6:17-19

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Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

More aphorisms

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The peculiar arrangement of the human ocular apparatus precludes one's viewing that which is immediately anterior to one's olfactory...
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Psalm 123.

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Psalm 123 is a very short one, only four verses, but it addresses a problem for the modern Christian. That problem is the ridicule and conte...
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Saturday, April 19, 2008

Big Pharma: hero or villain?

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The relationship between pharmaceutical companies, patients and doctors is a complex one. It derives from a mish-mash of motives. Let's ...
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Can Islam be reformed?

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Can Islam be reformed? Many commentators have suggested that what Islam needs is a Reformation akin to the protestant reformation of the fif...
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Friday, April 18, 2008

Next page

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“It would seem that the running here was involuntary. Just exactly how did a body disappear from the morgue? One heard such terrible stories...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Aldershot Phoenix

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After sixteen years Aldershot are back in the football league. When I was a young boy I was Aldershot's mascot. My father was secretary ...

Page 3

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“No. He has a patient precisely similar.” “Remarkable. Like London buses. You had better begin at the beginning and tell me the whole story....
Monday, April 14, 2008

Second page

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As they sat at the pine table sipping tea from bone china cups she asked about his children. “Robert is in India working with UNESCO. Jeremy...
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Arsenal's season over

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A series of enthralling football matches, mostly involving Arsenal, has ended. There are three major competitions in British football (socce...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

A new page 1

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What Fiona noticed first were his hands. They were not as she had remembered them. The fine, long fingers were calloused and grimy. His nail...
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Friday, April 11, 2008

School cheats

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In today's papers there is outrage that a local council here in Dorset has spied on a family. The story is that this family was about to...

Locks and Islam

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In an industrial museum in the Midlands I watched a locksmith at work. He asked this question, "What are locks for?" My reply was ...
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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Fitna

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If you haven't yet seen the controversial 15 minute short film Fitna by Geert Wilders you should. I am not endorsing it nor using it to...
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Aphorisms

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When you hear the beat of hooves think of horses not zebras. You can do anything you like as long as you don’t want the credit for it. If yo...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

CD20 and trisomy 12

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In advice that I have been giving over the past 5 years I have been stressing that CD20 is brighter in patients who have trisomy 12. Indeed ...
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TWENTY MILLION POUNDS

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Do you get those messages telling you that some widow of an important person has twenty million pounds (dollars, euros, whatever) in the Ivo...
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Terry Hamblin
Born in Worcester, England 1943; school at Farnborough, Hampshire 1954-62; University 1962-7 and junior doctor posts 1967-74 in Bristol; Consultant Haematologist Bournemouth 1974-2003; Professor of Immunohaematology Southampton 1986 to present. Honorary Consultant Haematologist Kings College Hospital, London, 2004-present. After 5 years of working part time researching, writing, reviewing, editing, speaking, sitting on committees, advising, answering questions and thinking, I now think of myself as fully retired apart from my role as Editor in Chief of the medical journal Leukemia Research. I was awarded the Binet-Rai medal for outstanding research in CLL in 2002 and this has been my most sucessful area of research, but I have also made important contributions in the fields of apheresis, stem cell transplantation, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome, antibody therapy, cytokine therapy and DNA vaccines. I was once mascot for Aldershot Town Football. Club. Married to Diane for 44 years. Four children, Karen, Richard, Angela and David.
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