TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Three Things About Elsie</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 288 LP - 288 DO - 10.3399/bjgp18X696521 VL - 68 IS - 671 AU - Maryam Naeem Y1 - 2018/06/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/68/671/288.abstract N2 - Joanna Cannon The Borough Press, 2018, HB, 464pp, £14.99, 978-0008196912I saw a frail, severely kyphotic 80-year-old lady mobilising slowly with her Zimmer frame in surgery this week. I confess to not being overly excited by her presenting complaint of a cough. However, as she apologised for coming to see me for what was ‘probably just a self-limiting viral infection, doctor, but I was worried I might not be able to compensate for much longer given my age and comorbidities’, I sat up straight, turned my hunched body away from the computer, looked at my patient, and asked what she had done for work before. Her face blossomed into a knowing smile as she informed me that she was a retired casualty sister of a large London teaching hospital. In that instant I … ER -