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County Nursing Ltd - Agency which places nurses and care staff to NHS and private hospitals and institutions. Includes news, pay rates, and application. Offices in Taunton and Weston-super-Mare. [Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
Somerset Health and Social Care - Information on medical help such as family doctors, dentists, opticians, pharmacists, hospitals, community health and social services.
North Somerset Primary Care Trust - Information about the trust including minutes of public meetings, newsletters and reports. Includes map of the trust's area and links to other NHS sites for details of local primary care facilities.
Somerset Healthy Schools - Provides health information for pupils, teachers and parents including links to resources and contacts.
Somerset St John Ambulance - Provides details of voluntary medical support services, caring services, education, training and personal development for young people.
Bath & North East Somerset Primary Care Trust - Provides press releases and board minutes of the Trust together with details of services including Health Improvement Programme and Patient Advice and Liaison Service.
St Margaret's Somerset Hospice - Charity providing free care, advice and support to people with an illness that is no longer responsive to curative treatment. Provides details of care, specialist training, events and fund-raising.
Musgrove Leukaemic Group Somerset - Fund raising charity supporting treatment and research for leukaemia and lymphoma in the county. Provides details of the research and clinical units, meetings, collections and events.
Somerset Cancer Care - Voluntary organisation that helps cancer patients and carers in Taunton, Minehead and Wells. Includes details of services, support groups and FAQ.
Somerset Coast Primary Care Trust - Information regarding the NHS Trust's work covering Sedgemoor and West Somerset. Includes services and facilities for patients and health care professionals.
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Health Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. Health "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano Health "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein Health When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Health I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Health "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Health "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) What's new? Most of my wife. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein Health "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Health No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Health The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Health If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln Health Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Health It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Health Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow Health "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Health The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Health "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Health It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Health What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea Health "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Health A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Health
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