Doctor ' reunion'

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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After moving down to South Devon I got a job in one of the local solicitors in the Probate department. One of the first estates I dealt with was the recent death of a retired doctor who lived in the area. On reading the file I was stunned to realise that it was the same doctor who had actually delivered me 45 years earlier, hundreds of miles away in Middlesex in the pre-NHS days. He and his family had retired to Devon some years previously and were living just a couple of miles from me. I got to meet his widow and daughter (who I was named after!) and told them the connection and they were as amazed as I was.
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