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The Quiet Achiever

10/30/2021

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When Australian scientist Professor Graeme Clark, the inventor of what’s known as the bionic ear, was asked what he’d learned on his long journey of discovery, he quoted Winston Churchill’s words, ‘Never, never, never give up!’
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It’s 1945, in the days when Camden was a rural area on the fringe of Sydney. Picture a young boy in the town pharmacy, watching his father’s daily struggle to communicate with his customers because of severe deafness. That image helps explain why, when the local Methodist minister asked ten-year-old Graeme Clark what he wanted to be when he grew up, he  replied ‘an ear doctor’.
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Podcast: Using Stories to Inspire - Florence and the Medic

10/14/2020

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The Art of Storytelling - A podcast where Paul masterfully tells  the story of Florence Nightingale to a Medic to inspire and encourage him.
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