Simon Paterson-Brown

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Simon Paterson-Brown

Simon Paterson-Brown

@spbsurgery

Retired General and Upper GI surgeon, Edinburgh. Other interests include patient safety initiatives, music and sport

Katılım Nisan 2016
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The Scottish bagpiper was Bill Millin, the personal piper to Lord Lovat, commander of the 1st Special Service Brigade on D‑Day. Bagpipes had been banned in combat since World War I because pipers were such obvious targets, but Lovat ignored the rule and ordered Millin to play as their landing craft approached Sword Beach. Under heavy fire, Millin marched up and down the shoreline playing traditional Scottish tunes while bullets and shells tore through the sand around him. His presence became a surreal symbol of defiance, an echo of ancient Highland warfare dropped into the chaos of modern mechanized battle. After the beach was secured, Millin learned from captured German snipers why he hadn’t been shot. They admitted they saw him clearly but assumed he had lost his mind, wandering through gunfire with a bagpipe instead of a weapon. To them, he wasn’t a threat, just a madman. That misunderstanding saved his life. Millin’s piping became one of the most iconic and improbable stories of D‑Day: a lone musician walking through the storm of war, protected not by armor or strategy, but by the sheer absurdity of what he was doing. #archaeohistories
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We have had a fantastic afternoon in the College Library to celebrate the launch of 'Worthy & Expert: A modern history of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh' by John Duncan. Congratulations to John on this significant achievement!
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Would You Support a Worldwide Ban on Trophy Hunting? YES or NO?
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What we can learn from sports psychology for high performance surgery great to hear from Calum Arthur ⁦@RCSEd⁩ ⁦@NOTSS_lab
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