Deeply moving

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear, does it make a sound? One of a doctor's unwritten roles is just to be there, to be a witness, a witness to pain and suffering, to grief and loss, to moments of great joy and great sorrow, but most of all a witness to body fluids.

Mrs Keogh arrived in the surgery in what P G Wodehouse would have called a dignified procession of one. …