Today marks 17 years since my late father, David Baum, died doing something he believed in. The world would look unfathomably different in many ways to him, the domination of the internet, social media, smart phones, systems biology (whatever that is!) and the concept of personalised medicine (where medicine is tailored to your genetics – not the personal engagement of the Physician in your problem, something he certainly championed and which is so lacking today). At the time