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About Steve Hards: Founder and Editor

Steve Hards

After a career in the NHS as a speech and language therapist and later, for Cambridge Community Health Unit, a board-level manager for contracting, planning and business development, in 1992 I became an independent consultant in the UK health and social services sector. Between 1997 and 2005 my principal client was the UK Government's Department of Health for which I managed numerous projects, including the Integration of Community Equipment Services (ICES). In 2004 I also organised the Telecare Policy Collaborative - a major experiment in policy development, bringing together, and working with, over 60 stakeholder organisations, which lead to my continuing interest in the field of telecare and telehealth.

I prefer to work from home these days but can provide online help with drafting and distributing press releases, creating PowerPoint presentations, proof reading/rewriting, etc.

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A curmudgeon's reputation for malevolence is undeserved. They're neither warped nor evil at heart. They don't hate mankind, just mankind's absurdities. They're just as sensitive and soft-hearted as the next guy, but they hide their vulnerability beneath a crust of misanthropy. They ease the pain by turning hurt into humor...They attack maudlinism because it devalues genuine sentiment...Nature, having failed to equip them with a servicable denial mechanism, has endowed them with astute perception and sly wit.

Curmudgeons are mockers and debunkers whose bitterness is a symptom rather than a disease. They can't compromise their standards and can't manage the suspension of disbelief necessary for feigned cheerfulness. Their awareness is a curse.

Perhaps curmudgeons have gotten a bad rap in the same way that the messenger is blamed for the message: They have the temerity to comment on the human condition without apology. They not only refuse to applaud mediocrity, they howl it down with morose glee. Their versions of the truth unsettle us, and we hold it against them, even though they soften it with humor.

- Jon Winokur

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