Time & hindsight

What became visible only after your working life slowed down or ended?

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Henry Marsh Neurosurgeon and writer
But I continued to think that illness happened to patients and not to doctors, even though I was now retired. Twenty months after I had my brain scanned, I was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. I had had typical symptoms for years, steadily getting worse, but it took me a long time before I could bring myself to ask for help. I thought I was being stoical when in reality I was being a coward.
Recorded Edited extract from And Finally: Matters of Life and Death, published by Vintage, The Guardian, 13 August 2022 source ↗
Arvid Carlsson Pharmacologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2000
Then at the time of retirement, that's a big problem in Sweden, as a retired person, because then you are pushed off. I was fortunate even from that point of view because I got a very good research collaboration agreement with Upjohn, the American Upjohn company. So that could help me to go on with my research.
Recorded Adam Smith, Interview at the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1207699200 source ↗

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