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Bill Coode
2024
Bill Coode died in service. Bill studied medicine at University College London, qualifying with his future wife, Sue Rowe, in 1993. At each stage of his medical career he profoundly influenced those he worked with, believing in the pivotal importance of emergency medicine and working in Newham, with one of the most deprived communities in the country, choosing a hospital offering challenge rather than comfort. Bill’s death, at the age of 55, becomes another part of that grim statistic. Consultant in emergency medicine Newham University Hospital (b 1967; q University College London, 1993; MRCP, FRCEM), died from heart failure on 31 October 2023
Journal Article
Haunted by Faith: An Ethnographic Study of Signals of Transcendence in Nones
2021
Study after study demonstrates that Christendom is no longer the dominant regulative force it once was. Faith, specifically faith in the Christian story, can no longer be presumed as the dominant narrative in West. According to Pew Research, 1/5 of the US public and 1/3 of adults under 30 years of age, are now no longer religiously affiliated. To press the point further, Nones (persons who claim no religious affiliation) now comprise 20% of the total adult population and it is estimated only 15-20% of the US population regularly attends Sunday worship. The cultural landscape of American religiosity has shifted. This new culture, dubbed by philosopher Charles Taylor as A Secular Age, is milieu in which the church now finds itself.Given the rise of the Nones, the church now has a mandate not only to label them, but to understand them so that it can better understand how to communicate the Gospel in a changing world. While data demonstrates a lack of devotion to institutional religion, one may wonder if there are expressions of something more than immanence in the lives of those that claim to be Nones? Is there a non-reducible experience to which their lives attest, expressions that are regular occurrences but not empirically justified? If so, what are they and might these expressions be a means of connecting people of faith to people who are non-religious? To this end, this thesis ethnographically explores the sociological phenomena of signals of transcendence in Nones as a means of discerning where the old world of the gods may still be operative experientially for those that have never been a part of organized faith. As a point of further novelty, this thesis does not interview former Christians, but focuses on those who have been raised in this Secular Age and never had a personal confession of faith.To accomplish this goal, this thesis has three primary large movements: theory (chapter 2), method (chapter 3), and research (chapter 4). After introducing the parameters of the thesis in chapter 1, chapter 2, explores the philosophical, biblical, and theological foundations within which to understand this problem and engage it. Charles Taylor sets the stage of our problem, providing a history of ideas that lead to our context. Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological theory then provides a frame for understanding human behavior from within his concepts of habitus and field. The Book of Acts and the Psalter provide biblical engagement. Finally, phenomenology as theological method is introduced, and an anthropological model of contextual missions issued.In chapter 3, method is specifically framed, with special attention to the various sorts of transcendence at work in persons. The project goes into greater statistical depth about the church’s cultural challenges, and then turns its attention to the qualitative approach at work in this thesis and the reflexive interviewing method employed. This chapter ends with a brief description of the participants and a pastoral understanding of the role of ethnography within the missional enterprise of the church.Chapter 4 is the main body of the reflexive interview process with human subjects and the application of ethnographic technique. This chapter uses five registers of Peter Berger and Edward Farley that occur across all interviews as a means of interpreting participant data. The categories of Tradition, Obligation, Play, Damnation, and Hope are explored in detail as viable transcendent signals in Nones. This chapter ends by framing these findings.Lastly, the thesis concludes by offering a summation of the research and offering a taxonomy of deep symbols that are embodied in Nones. It presents the novel findings of the research, including the new root metaphor of Home for all signals. Finally, it argues that ethnography must be included in any new missiological mandate of the church.
Dissertation
Emergency Management of Cardiac Trauma
by
Messent, Mark
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Napier, James
in
Blunt cardiac injury
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cardio‐pulmonary bypass (CPB)
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endovascular stent grafting (EVSG)
2011,2010
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Blunt cardiac injury
Aortic injury
Penetrating cardiac and great vessel injury
Summary
References
Book Chapter
Act FAST when dealing with a stroke
2016
In recent years, an intravenous \"clot-busting\" drug called tissue plasminogen activator -- t-PA -- has helped eligible patients with acute ischemic stroke. tPA has been shown to actually stop, and in some cases even reverse, the progression of a stroke.
Newspaper Article
Political leaders can find lessons in Kipling's wise words
2010
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master, If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: \"Hold on!\" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Newspaper Article
TAGAN PIPEROCKS BZ 1300W
2008
Just when we all started believing that it was possible to run a high-end PC with something as modest as a 600W unit from a respectable manufacturer, AMD and NVIDIA drop the bombshell that their latest two-gpus-on-one-pcb graphics cards require somewhere in the region of 300W to operate. Stick two in your PC in CrossFireX or SLI configurations and that modest 600W PSU is likely to have a coronary.
Magazine Article