Duty of Care
By Margaret Simons
Pluck an episode from the midstream of human life and it can be hard to glean meaning. Sometimes there is just senselessness and mess. If there is a theme to the events that have interrupted these women’s lives, however, it is surely care, and its opposite, carelessness. The principal actor is the 60-year-old anaesthetist Dr James Latham Peters, who, the e