Today I am thinking about an anesthesiologist’s story of his first two intubations, back to back, on young women bedded in the same unit, both mothers with young families to care for. He writes of the panic in their eyes and in his heart and the moment when he has to switch from compassion to competent – and carry on.

Today I am thinking about an anesthesiologist’s story of his first two intubations, back to back, on young women bedded in the same unit, both mothers with young families to care for. He writes of the panic in their eyes and in his heart and the moment when he has to switch from compassion to competent – and carry on.

But today as the UK death toll from Corona virus tops 100,000, there leaks news of petty behavior from Boris Johnson to João Vale de Almeida the ambassador sent to represent the European Union in England. This rolls back to past behaviors and slights between brief-cased men and women over the last painful years of the Brexit negotiations and now rumbles on into questions of who holds how many doses of which vaccine, manufactured and stored in which country, and who is going to share, what, when.

But today as the UK death toll from Corona virus tops 100,000, there leaks news of petty behavior from Boris Johnson to João Vale de Almeida the ambassador sent to represent the European Union in England. This rolls back to past behaviors and slights between brief-cased men and women over the last painful years of the Brexit negotiations and now rumbles on into questions of who holds how many doses of which vaccine, manufactured and stored in which country, and who is going to share, what, when.

On Wednesday, as this program airs on WWMR.org the United States is inaugurating Joe Biden as their 46th president and with that act completed the United States and the world stage will change and a new act begins. While Putin may shrug off concern for world opinion the question still remains, ‘What to do with this constant festering thorn in his side'.

On Wednesday, as this program airs on WWMR.org the United States is inaugurating Joe Biden as their 46th president and with that act completed the United States and the world stage will change and a new act begins. While Putin may shrug off concern for world opinion the question still remains, ‘What to do with this constant festering thorn in his side'.

The small hamlets and villages that surrounded my childhood are dotted with Covid virus cases and death. Old names – Ash Vale, Frimley, Bagshot, Camberley, Farnham, Elstead, Tongham, and Guildford, all a part of my childhood – are now saddened with a startled grief.

The small hamlets and villages that surrounded my childhood are dotted with Covid virus cases and death. Old names – Ash Vale, Frimley, Bagshot, Camberley, Farnham, Elstead, Tongham, and Guildford, all a part of my childhood – are now saddened with a startled grief.

This was aired on KWMR.org Wednesday morning Pacific time. And then there was Wednesday Morning East Coast time – and you know the rest. With Love from London.

This was aired on KWMR.org Wednesday morning Pacific time. And then there was Wednesday Morning East Coast time – and you know the rest. With Love from London.