It Takes a Village

“I firmly believe that it is often the ‘little things’ that matter most. And I think that sometimes they get overlooked because they’re seen as ‘little’... There was a man who died of motor neurone disease a couple of years ago. I saw him weekly, and then daily, for 18 months. He was paralysed, there was no family local to him, and he was a smoker. When I’d get to his house, I’d light a cigarette and hold it in his mouth. Then I’d give him another one before I went away. Lighting those cigarettes was probably as important as many of the medical things I did for him.” Euan, GP