Welcome to My Professional Website

Having passed my biblical span (and a level par score on the golf course of life), and semi-retired, I now have more time to reflect on my career and many blessings.

I am extremely fortunate to have had a stimulating and rewarding professional life (not entirely over yet), which has allowed me to travel widely and to associate with many extraordinary people in many countries. I have recounted some of these adventures in my recently published memoirs, called “The tunnel at the end of the light; my endoscopic journey in six decades”, details of which are attached. In the process of writing and publicizing this book I have reconnected with many friends around the world. This web site and blog are intended to allow me to continue and to progress those connections in a way that I hope will be mutually instructive and fun.

At the same time I rejoice in my family, which now extends to 8 grandchildren and one great grandson. My personal web site (www.petercottontales.com) is designed to keep us close together, despite the physical distances, and to keep track of the adventures of “Fred-Fred”. The first book is called “When Fred the snake got squished and mended”.  It will be followed soon by “When Fred the snake goes to school”.

I shall be blogging away to both audiences, and hope to stimulate your interest and responses

Peter B. Cotton

 

Conjoined courage

I wrote recently about courage and positive attitude. This story is amazing http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22181528  

Thank you, Aggie (and Howard)

We lost Aggie Shapiro this week. I am sad, very sad, but also enormously grateful for our friendship, and for so many memorable times together. Aggie came to London for a few months in 1974, with Howard, who wanted to learn more about some endoscopic techniques with me at The Middlesex Hospital. At the time,…

Book review, Royal College of Physicians

With a great title and stunning front cover, this thoroughly enjoyable, light-hearted ‘page turner’ provides a personalised, lightning-fast tour through six decades of endoscopy practice. Peter Cotton is not only the ‘master endoscopist’ but is also a raconteur of the highest order. From his early days at the Middlesex Hospital in London to his move…