‘Yes. It’s fine,’ he replied. ‘But it took quite a while.’ ‘Did you go and have a cup of tea to help stop the bleeding?’ ‘Well, no, not tea,’ he said, pointing to a plastic bottle of Coca-Cola on one of the worktops behind him. ‘Well, no wonder the haemostasis took so long!’ I said with mock disapproval and all the team laughed, happy that the case was over and that they could now go home.
