John - A life well lived

The Financial Life Well-Lived: Psychological Benefits of Financial Planning

As the financial planning industry undergoes a series of reforms aimed at increased professionalism and improved quality of advice, financial planner training in Australia and elsewhere has begun to acknowledge the importance of interdisciplinary knowledge bases in informing both curriculum design and professional practice (e.g. FPA 2009). This paper underscores the importance of the process of...

You've Lived a Good Life.

DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2015.63.3206 Our aging population places a strain on all aspects of the health care system, including oncology services. In an article published in The ASCO Post, Holland and Greenstein discussed the need to prepare younger oncologists to care for much older patients. I typically prepare for new patients by reviewing their pathology, radiology, and comorbid conditions. Age is a...

John Sulston: a life in sequence

John Sulston is so self-deprecating that he could be difficult to profile were his achievements not already so well documented. He dislikes being singled out for attention when his current claim to fame, the genome sequencing programme at the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, UK, is a team effort involving more than 500 people. And when asked why he has announced his intention of stepping down as dir...

John Locke and Modern Life

Being Lived by My Life

The subsidiary title of this book is "A sort of biography"; and the publisher's note describes it as "a new departure in auto-biography". Both these claims are true. Dr. Berg, an analyst and the author of several technical works, has chosen to write his autobiography in much the same style as one might expect to hear a life story from the analyst's couch. How far he has succeeded, and how far h...