A month or so ago I received an email asking if I would give a talk at a conference. The request was from the British Society for Heart Failure (which is the specialist society for this in the UK) and so I was flattered to be asked. I was also a bit nervous. I’m quite comfortable giving talks, but this was to be in front of a few hundred people. It was also rather inconvenient, in as much as the conference was in Cardiff on a Friday morning. I didn’t want to cancel my monthly inherited heart disease clinic the afternoon before, and had another meeting Friday afternoon so this would be an 8 hour round trip for a half-hour talk, and probably a late night.
