The basic requirement for the continuation of the genetic code is a connection between two gametes – in its fullest sense: a ‘gameeting’.

General practice has a very long way to go to catch up with the innovation that is taking place in many other trades.

It is too easy for commentators to generalise old people as having weak immune systems and being consequently more prone to succumbing to the more profound viral infections we experience in the epidemics and pandemics like MERS, SARS, or COVID-19.

That special moment when the feeling, that inkling of understanding exploded into my consciousness… I was unable to stop the questions, the constant searching of Google, the new-found courage and confidence to contact and meet people, scientists, researchers I had never met or even knew existed. Like an egg overheated in a microwave, my questions erupted, splattering over all those poor folks in my life.

40 years, 400,000 consults, 1000s of cumulative hours examining people with a seemingly endless array of ailments and frailties, slowly turns experience and knowledge into hard-won (sometimes I think resisted) wisdom.