Caring: Baby Samkelo, who is dying from liver disease, sleeps in Joburg’s Baragwanath Hospital, the kind of patient Dr Alastair McAlpine makes comfortable in their last days. Photo: In Pictures Ltd./Getty Images
If you were to meet a group of university students, one of whom was studying medicine, how would you be able to tell which one? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you!
That hoary old chestnut from my student days has been resurrected as a convenient entry point for the topic of…