I came back on adult cases only for three months.

I did my first pediatric case in the following October, eight months after, and my department chief stood in that theatre for the whole of it and did not say one word and did not need to.

I asked him afterward whether he had been checking on me.

And he said, “No.

I was there so that if anything at all had gone sideways, there would be a second consultant in the room and nobody would ever be able to say a word about it.

That’s not for you.