JellyBean 057 with Gracie Leo

LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog There will be no SMACC in 2018. Whats going on in the good ship SMACC? I ask SMACC insider Gracie Leo and she tries her best not to tell me anything. Secret Squirrel stuff. Messrs.’ Harris, Nixon and Flower have been trying to hide their secret weapons secret. One of those secret weapons is Gracie Leo. I’ve been trying to get her to do a Jellybean for 3 years but she kept slipping away. I tried to stop myself taking offence. In Dublin I finally got her to sit down with me. I tried to stop her sitting on the fence. (It wasn’t that easy.) The story goes that Gracie was doing a TEDmed talk as a medical student and met up with the SMACC leadership. They knew a good thing when they saw it and for the last 3-4 years Gracie has been one of the team that brings SMACC to life. Gracie describes it as a family. If my family is anything to go by that would mean epic late night pouring out of hearts and a few massive fall outs. I asked her the tough questions. Are they really horrible? Is it slave labour? Apparently Oli Flower is very nice and she tells me Roger is nice too. (I note there was no retort on Nixons jokes.) She may or may not have had media training but I didn’t get any big dirt. (Es tut mir leid.) Like every jellybean subject Gracies talents go beyond being a medic. Design is but one of her areas of interest. In fact Dr L...
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