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Picture courtesy of Chat GPT. Thank you robot friends. I recently was invited to give a talk. And I decided to drop the F word. Yep, you’ve guessed correctly. One of the quirky delights of healthcare in the NHS, is that most of the time, clinicians have almost no concept of the F-word. By that, I mean Finance. Money. For some reason, it feels quite a grubby thing to talk about for lots of reasons. Firstly, we are British and it is very considered crude and uncouth to discuss

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