John Launer: A medical school reunion

If you’re lucky enough, you’ll live to attend the 50th anniversary of entering medical school. I did so quite recently. We’d been a small intake of just over 100 students, in keeping with the era. Around a quarter of us attended the celebration, which I guess might be typical at this distance of time. Other alumni were abroad, were affected by rail strikes, sent their apologies for various reasons, didn’t reply to the invitation, or had lost contact. Sadly, at least three members of our year have died.The two organisers had tactfully arranged for us all to have name badges, although I found that some people were instantly recognisable from their impish or studious faces. In other cases I found it harder to fit names to faces or, in a few instances, to remember either. This probably tells you more about my memory than anything else. (Note to future organisers:…
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