Dr. John Watson’s CV

Screencaps from s1x02, “The Blind Banker”. John goes to a local clinic to look for a job as a locum (US readers: that’s a doctor doing replacement / temp work).

Some of the details here are interesting. In particular, the choice of intended specialty stands out: laparoscopic or “keyhole” surgery. This is a practitioner who has no love of slice ‘n’ dice / “meatball” surgery… probably having had more than enough of it in Afghanistan. It should probably be mentioned in passing here that every nurse who’s ever “scrubbed in” knows (or knows about) surgeons who just looooooove slicing patients open, making a mess and and seeing the blood fly. John Watson is plainly not one of these: he wants to heal people while doing the least possible damage to their bodies, and getting them back to their lives as quickly and with as little pain as possible.

Of particular interest is the phrase “crusader of clinical governance”, which — despite what the Wikipedia article may offhandedly imply — is not just another buzzword to the practitioners who take it seriously. It implies that the professional invoking it is intent on seeing that things are done for his or her patients openly, properly, and in line with best clinical practice.

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(BTW: we’ve been getting Google queries for “John Watson CV font” or “Dr. Watson CV font”. If you’re interested in this subject, it looks like John’s CV is set in good old Times Roman, but (on his name at least) using the “Large and small caps” setting. The words “Curriculum Vitae” and “Profile” have been set in caps with a space between each letter.)

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Unfortunately it’s hard to get a decent cap of the middle of the page, which features details of John’s clinical training history, as the camera panned down it at some speed. I may take a run at this another time to see if I can simply transcribe the contents. The bottom, however, is clearer.

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See “The Starship and the Upstairs Flat” for some thoughts about the character to whom this data belongs.

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The Starship and the Upstairs Flat February 2, 2012 - 4:43 pm

[…] with an emphasis on laparoscopy and other associated styles of “bloodless surgery”. Click here for screencaps with some light clinical commentary.) John’s underlying compassion positions him perfectly to understand and support his […]

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Dr. John Watson's CV: Searching for the Secrets April 17, 2013 - 11:49 am

[…] My first pass at screencapping John’s info last year yielded a fair amount of useful data, but the middle of the page was hard to make out and I couldn’t then get much data out of it — which was annoying, as it held useful educational detail. But just this last week, when I took another run at the most difficult part of that middle page, I managed to make out most of the missing material (though still not absolutely everything, and I won’t bother uploading screencaps of the middle because it’s still way too fuzzy: the only way to read it was by watching it repeatedly in motion. BTW, you can click through these images for much bigger ones if you want). […]

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The Starship and the Upstairs Flat - Out of Ambit April 22, 2013 - 11:51 am

[…] with an emphasis on laparoscopy and other associated styles of “bloodless surgery”. Click here for screencaps with some light clinical commentary.) John’s underlying compassion positions him perfectly to understand and support his […]

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Dr. John Watson's CV: Searching for the Secrets July 26, 2020 - 2:17 pm

[…] My first pass at screencapping John’s info last year yielded a fair amount of useful data, but the middle of the page was hard to make out and I couldn’t then get much data out of it — which was annoying, as it held useful educational detail. But just this last week, when I took another run at the most difficult part of that middle page, I managed to make out most of the missing material (though still not absolutely everything, and I won’t bother uploading screencaps of the middle because it’s still way too fuzzy: the only way to read it was by watching it repeatedly in motion. BTW, you can click through these images for much bigger ones if you want). […]

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