Simon Paterson-Brown
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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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Today's #mysteryphoto (no. 392) features a new, or newly-resurfaced, road. It was taken in the 1920s or 1930s. If you recognise where it is, please get in touch. Thank you!

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Our musical group PMT Music has just released our first album pmtmusic.bandcamp.com/album/new-song…
Old and well known Scottish tunes with new lyrics. Hope you enjoy
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@histories_arch It's a wonderful story and PMT Music have just released a song about this very thing
pmtmusic.bandcamp.com/album/new-song…
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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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Can you identify this beautiful part of Scotland? #ViewFromTheCrew
#Scotland #AirAmbulance #Helicopter #Photography

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@ScotAirAmb @UndisScot St Andrews and the R&A clubhouse
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Which part of Scotland has been catpured in today's #ViewFromTheCrew photo?
#Scotland #AirAmbulance #Helicopter #Photography

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This is superb thinking for everyday life, not just work. Thank you
GeniusThinking@GeniusGTX
Thank you for reading this thread. What’s your ONE big takeaway from this story? Follow me @GeniusGTX for more threads about the hidden brilliance of ancient civilizations.
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What are we looking at in today's #ViewFromTheCrew photo?
#Scotland #AirAmbulance #Helicopter #Photography

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Do you know which part of Scotland this is? #ViewFromTheCrew
#Scotland #AirAmbulance #Helicopter #Photography

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@GarnhamAndy @RCSEd @NOTSS_lab Fantastic talk bringing top sports psychology to top class surgery. A match made in heaven!
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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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