Li, a past executive at JP Morgan Chase and Merrill Lynch’s China operations who has worked for several law firms in New York was blooded in commodities as a young man, working in the offshore oil fields of the North China sea prior to college.

It may be possible to satisfy the requirements of the nMRCGP/JCPTGP exam by demonstrating only 2 years in hospital posts, plus 1 year in GP-land, plus passing the exam, BUT many trainees in practice recognise that this is a basic core requirement, not a maximum requirement, and indeed, so do many potential GP-employers.

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party... Ask all our millions, north and south, whether they would vote now (were such a thing possible) to have our war for the Union expunged from history... and probably hardly a handful of eccentrics would say yes. Those ancestors, those efforts, those memories and legends, ar the most ideal part of what we now own together, a sacred spiritual possession worth more than all the blood poured out. Yet ask those same people whether they would be willing, in cold blood, to start another civil war now to gain another similar possession, and not one man or woman would vote for the proposition.

The wind lifted up her skirt and I caught a glimpse of her downstairs.