Abstract
When Ara Darzi was summoned to the UK Prime Minister's office in June, 2007, he thought he was going to get a slap on the back for his radical ideas for the National Health Service (NHS) in London. Gordon Brown, to his astonishment, asked him to be a Health Minister. Darzi recalls how “I couldn't keep a straight face. I did laugh. I didn't know if he was serious”. But Brown was serious and told him to take a few days to think about it. Darzi, however, says “I came to the conclusion that this is not something I wished to do.
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