“I KNOW, I know,” writes reader Andrew MacGregor, “you said `No more,
please’.” But he cannot resist mentioning Dr Notcutt at the pain relief clinic
at James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
So we are persuaded—yet again. Readers, clearly believing we don’t mean
a word we say, continue to flood us with examples of nominative determinism, the
phenomenon whereby people choose jobs that fit their name.
As in the past, medics lead the field. As well as Dr Notcutt, there is the
doctor interviewed recently on BBC TV called Norman Haacke. Dr K. Brain spoke at
a recent…
