That was good, he’s behaving exactly as we predicted. We just need the next part to fall into place and we’ll be rid of him for good,’ Attwood said.

You’re like a medical punch bag where everyone can let out their frustrations, a bit like Twitter.

It’s just we wouldn’t want to see this happen to anyone else,’ she said.

All surgeons have an occasional disaster, not of their own making but simply because biological organisms like humans are fickle healers and vulnerable to infection, poor healing, allergies and inexplicable elements.

I’m so sorry, but life is cruel at times.

Nonsense Ashley, if gynaecologists were any good as surgeons, we would let them operate on men,’ said Jeffrey, laughing at his own wit.

Ashley valued her clinical judgements as much as the items on a letter to Santa Claus, and when she unwrapped an abdomen, she was deeply disappointed if it didn’t contain what had been on her list.

Using the diathermy to cut tissue used extra current and burned through the tissue like a laser in a James Bond movie.