Life is given over to fingerposts, some are obvious and send us down clear, clean paths, ready for the next direction. Others come unbidden, unsought and often missed, they point to a places that we all are aware of, but tend to shun or shut away.
Recently I stumbled across an address by Glenn Colquhoun to the annual conference of The Royal College of General Practioners. It is entitled The Therapeutic Uses of Ache. It is a beautiful piece, and well worth taking the time to read and ponder. It is not, as you imagine, a dry medical dissertation, it is one man's heartfelt appraisal and experience of a part of the human condition that afflicts all of us, but few discuss, dwell upon or consider.
Here it is:-
The Therapeutic Uses of Ache
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