Acute case of a hack’s diagnosis

I met a member of the medical profession for a coffee the other day, and as we chatted I felt I had to correct her on some of the clinical terminology on offer, to tidy up the doctor-speak, if you like.

No, I don’t feel I was overstepping the mark or being presumptuous. Haven’t I spent years offering pressbox diagnoses, after all?

Here’s the scenario. You’re watching a game and a player goes down, and from everywhere in the eyrie you share with other members of the fourth estate, the appraisals start coming in