Malpractice

Update: the patient with tonsilitis turns out to have glandular fever. So much for Dr Scarlet. I am beating a humbled retreat back into the uninfectious (not to say uncommunicable) realm of classical philology, from which standpoint the most pertinent contribution I have to make is the quite harmless one that "Mono" (as glandular fever is called on these shores) is a pleasingly ironic name for the Kissing Disease.