Follow-up

WITH regard to coincidences, when I was working for a GP, he and his wife went to New Zealand for a holiday. When he returned, he went to the patient files drawer, removed two and asked me to send them to the local health authority, as they were no longer on our patient list. When I asked him why, he said that he had been waiting to go on a ferry boat trip in New Zealand when he heard someone call out: ‘Hallo, Dr Brown’. It was two patients who lived in the village, but had emigrated to Singapore. They were holidaying in New Zealand, too!

Pheobe Watkins, Rochester, Kent.