TY - JOUR T1 - Staring into the crystal ball JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 90 LP - 90 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.6-2-90 VL - 6 IS - 2 AU - Tom Downes Y1 - 2019/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/2/90.abstract N2 - My medical student elective in the early 1990s involved travel to western Australia for a rich learning experience with superb breast-surgery and haematology teams. Communication with family and friends back home was by aerogramme (remember those, now discontinued, light blue letters that folded to form an envelope?) as international phone calls were prohibitively expensive. Taking a week to write, post and receive, this gave a two-week cycle time for each update of news from home. Contrast this with a return to Perth a couple of years … ER -