In the course of my Lecture titled, "Cutting with Compassion: Including the
Excluded", as a "bloody" Surgeon, I intend to present a synopsis of how and what I have
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been cutting for over four decades, of which over twenty five years has been as a
Consultant Surgeon. In the process of doing so, I will define the key words of “Cutting”,
“Compassion”, “Including” and “Excluded”. I intend to briefly take us through the Echoes
of my Early Life, the strenuous training period as an undergraduate and later, postgraduate
student of Medicine, my Practice - Past and Present - including my adventure into
"surgical herbology" and, the Future. I will also touch on the struggle for the Clinical
accreditation of the College of Health Sciences in the early years of the College and
highlight some troubling policies and practices with adverse consequences on the Future of
the Health Care System and its Practitioners. This will include the omissions and
commissions of Medical Practitioners, Policy makers and the Governments of our funding
states. Lastly, I will make some recommendations, as I bow out, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, sir
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