‘Budge up, yeh great lump,’ said the stranger.

Sadly, all the German officers whom we met during these bloody years of world war, with rare exceptions, were as Armenophobic as the Turks, some expressing themselves indiscreetly, others being more diplomatic.

The patient has an abdominal pain, severe abdominal distention, obvious tenderness, rebound tenderness and muscular rigidity over the whole abdomen, disappearance or diminution of bowel sound, anacatharsis, accompanied with systemic toxic symptoms or shock, red tongue with yellow and greasy or yellow and dry fur and deep, thready and rapid pulse.

Because going from, in GP-land, having 15 minute blocks and a room full of patients... I didn't realise how much over the last years I'd learnt all these techniques to block everyone... to find what they needed and get them out in 15 minutes.