The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7253 p826
14 June 2003

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Special general meeting

An illusion of progress

From Mr D. R. Thomas, MRPharmS

I attended the special general meeting of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on 1 June and found the debate and discussions interesting, in particular the concern by some members regarding outside interference in the status quo of our Society and the consequences arising. I attach therefore the following quotation usually entitled "They also had their problems":

"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by re-organising and a wonderful method it can be for creating an illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."
Petronius Arbiter 210 BC.

David Thomas
Feltham, Middlesex

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