Correspondence
Comment on ‘In praise of. . . John Nicholls’ doi:10.1111/codi.12915
Dear Sir, I wanted to add two points to Neil Mortensen’s generous and accurate tribute to John Nicholls [1] as he retires as founder editor of this journal. Firstly, John fulfilled this role from the base of being a supremely good, thoughtful and expert pouch surgeon. He was for many years the ultimate expert you telephoned when it was all going wrong, and he was always sympathetic and constructive in his advice. Furthermore, he would offer to take over the patient from you and ‘sort it out’ whenever this was practicable. All of this meant that hopeful authors were dealing with a
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‘surgeon of consequence’ when he either accepted or rejected their offerings. Secondly, he was and is a brilliant networker. Breakfast with John at an overseas meeting is always a happy experience. This is a quality that continually informs an editor’s judgement as he goes about his task of trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.
M. J. Kelly University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, LE5 4PW, UK E-mail: [email protected] Received 30 January 2015; accepted 30 January 2015; Accepted Article online 5 February 2015
Reference 1 Mortensen N. ‘In praise of. . ..John Nicholls’. Colorectal Dis 2015; 17: 1.
Colorectal Disease ª 2015 The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. 17, 361–362
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Comment on ‘In praise of. . . John Nicholls’ doi:10.1111/codi.12915
Dear Sir, I wanted to add two points to Neil Mortensen’s generous and accurate tribute to John Nicholls [1] as he retires as founder editor of this journal. Firstly, John fulfilled this role from the base of being a supremely good, thoughtful and expert pouch surgeon. He was for many years the ultimate expert you telephoned when it was all going wrong, and he was always sympathetic and constructive in his advice. Furthermore, he would offer to take over the patient from you and ‘sort it out’ whenever this was practicable. All of this meant that hopeful authors were dealing with a
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‘surgeon of consequence’ when he either accepted or rejected their offerings. Secondly, he was and is a brilliant networker. Breakfast with John at an overseas meeting is always a happy experience. This is a quality that continually informs an editor’s judgement as he goes about his task of trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.
M. J. Kelly University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, LE5 4PW, UK E-mail: [email protected] Received 30 January 2015; accepted 30 January 2015; Accepted Article online 5 February 2015
Reference 1 Mortensen N. ‘In praise of. . ..John Nicholls’. Colorectal Dis 2015; 17: 1.
Colorectal Disease ª 2015 The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. 17, 361–362
Copyright of Colorectal Disease is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
