Charlotte and I were on the car recently and we had a call to go to an elderly lady believed collapsed behind locked doors. She had had a blood test a few days earlier and the pathologist (a doctor who specialises in the scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes and processes)…

One day recently I was working a shift in an Urgent Care Centre. As I called in my next patient, up stepped a very pale young man, his injured finger was supported in a high arm sling. As we moved towards the consulting room he began telling me about his accident at work and how…