Off with his head! In your own time…

In the second of his two-part series, Consultant Surgeon Dr Mark Corrigan takes another look at how pressure can affect us, particularly self-imposed pressure based on past mistakes. Pressure does not always originate from another individual, often it is a complex product of others, a particular situation and ourselves. It was late morning on Wednesday, July 15, 1685, and the warm bread his wife had bought him that morning was still lying undigested somewhere in the depths of John Ketch’s gut. Ketch was an executioner in London, who by the summer of 1685 was very experienced, having dispatched hundreds to their…