One hundred not out at the end of the innings! Not a bad score using the cricketing analogy, but 10 years is a little bit longer than the average time it takes most cricketers to score a century. Medicine in Small Doses (MiSDs), has been a significant part of my life since the first article in 2008, for which I wish to acknowledge John Hall, the Editor-in-Chief of this journal at the time, for his foresight and trust in me to make it happen. Producing 800 words every month may not sound like a very difficult task, but finding a topic, doing the research, dictating the manuscript, editing the transcript and submitting online on time, all have their challenges. The most notable of which was doing all this on an Antarctic expedition in a cramped cabin with variable access to the Internet! John Hall's other concession was to allow me to cite the reference in the text, rather than in a list of references at the end, which I believe added to the readability. This last dose, completes this phase of my medical writing journey, as I have made the decision not to return to the crease for another innings. I believe I have fulfilled my objectives of encouraging my readers to read at least part of the journal and most importantly make them think outside the square, question dogma, look for the evidence all to improve the wellbeing of their patients. These objectives are without a doubt the legacy of one Hugh Arnold Freeman Dudley (1925–2011) CBE, MBChB, ChM, FRCS (Edin), FRACS, FRCS (Eng), my mentor! Hugh Dudley was born in Dublin, attended Heath Grammar School in Halifax, England and was dux of his year in 1947 at Edinburgh University Medical School. After internships in Edinburgh, he served as a medical officer in the British Army in the Parachute Regiment before returning to his chosen career in surgery at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Here his mentor was Sir James Learmonth in the University Department of Surgery in Edinburgh. Pursuing his interest in the body's response to injury, he took a research fellowship with Dr Francis Moore in Boston completing a ChM Thesis in 1958. After a short stint in Aberdeen, he was appointed Foundation Professor of Surgery at Monash University, in 1963, as head of the Department of Surgery at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and brought with him John Masterton. He could not have chosen a better 2ic. He was also active in the Surgical Research Society of Australasia and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He led two civilian surgical teams to Vietnam and was decorated by the South Vietnam Government for removing a live shell detonator cap from the abdomen of a wounded civilian. Frustrated by the failure of the Victorian government to fund his advanced plans for a campus hospital on the Clayton site of Monash University and a yearning to return to the UK he accepted an appointment as Professor of Surgery at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London in 1973 where he remained until retiring from surgical practice in 1988 but continued writing and consultative work with the British Ministry of Defence, spending this last phase of his life in his beloved Aberdeenshire where he died in 2011. Though an academic first and foremost he was a superb teacher and technical surgeon. He developed a strong research base in his two departments, encouraging young trainee surgeons to take higher degrees and influencing the careers of many other aspiring surgeons in Australia and the UK. Dudley's incisive mind and passion for excellence gave him a reputation of directness, but his insight and humility and loyalty to his staff and trainees were unquestionable. His most significant contributions however were extensive writings in the surgical literature as editor or author of many texts. Perhaps his most outstanding contribution was the transformation of the British Journal of Surgery from that dominated by the publisher to that by surgeons establishing a company that owned the Journal (Masterton & Marmion: www.surgeons.org/racs/fellows/in-memoriam/hugh-dudley; Russell & Gillam: https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E001457b.htm). I was lucky to come under Dudley's influence as a Monash medical undergraduate and BMedSc student in Melbourne and with John Masterton's encouragement followed Dudley to St Mary's as a research fellow, after obtaining my FRACS. Here he instilled in me that medical writing was only the ‘jam on the bread’ and not a career in itself. He gave me the opportunity to co-edit a popular undergraduate surgical text book, Scott: An Aid to Clinical Surgery which went on to three later editions, but mostly he instilled in me a passion for medical writing, coupled with a questioning mind. I hope I have lived up to his expectations.