Oh boy, oh boy. Can I resist the urge to correct Ramesh on a point of reproductive biology? No, I can’t. The spelling, Ramesh, is “hydatidiform,” not “hyatidiform.”

There was a picture of a hydatidiform mole in one of my mother’s nursing textbooks. Looked like something you fish out when cleaning the barbecue. Those books were among my very earliest reading matter.

I could spell “gastrocnemius” before I could tie my shoelaces, and knew the dire facial consequences of late-stage syphilis long, long before I needed to worry about it.