title: Send in the clowns.
abstract: I WAS HAVING A MEAL recently with a friend who, like me, is a healthcare chaplain. We began talking about work, of its joys and frustrations, when suddenly she said that she thought good chaplains had a great deal in common with clowns!
authors.affiliation: Barts and The London NHS Trust and deputy convenor of the Network of Chaplains in Healthcare.
authors.forename: Reverend Ben
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Rhodes