One of the joys of retirement is looking back on my career and being proud of the difference I and my colleagues made.

More recently, the medical misogyny campaign in the media — doctors ignoring endometriosis pain, for starters — got me thinking about my former colleague, Dr John Lennane.

When we worked together in New Zealand, John was the renal resident and I was the resident. In winter, we played for the hospital’s rugby team — John was the tighthead prop and I was the loosehead prop.

John’s wife, Dr Jean Lennane, was an extremely bright psychiatric registrar.