October

“Are you ready to order?”

“Everything looks delicious, but I think I’ll go with the chef’s tasting menu.”

“Can I interest you in the cannabis pairing to heighten your meal experience?”

I recently read an interesting article on the business culture at Netflix in WIRED (www.wired.com/story/reed-hastings-at-ted). In the article, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings spoke about a talk he had given at the TED conference in Vancouver in April 2018, where he had said that “he purposely built Netflix to have a culture of open information sharing after his first company, Pure Software, struggled because it was too obsessed with creating processes to prevent mistakes from happening.

The article in the July/August 2018 issue of the journal about assessments by pit appointment [2018;60:304-313] reminded me of the dom appointments I took part in, in UK general practice. No, not that kind of dom, but the domiciliary visit. A specialist consultant and the family doctor would meet at a patient’s house. The fields covered included internal medicine and especially psychiatry.

Happy 60th birthday to the writers, editors, designers, and all others who create the BC Medical Journal!

Dr Bonnie Henry

What profession might you have pursued, if not medicine?

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