In the 2-year course of our Osler journey, my business partner Jeff has said to many time who in the hospital he’d want looking after him if he needed a procedure performed : the senior registrar.

As Jeff sees it, senior registrars are about as sharp skills-wise as they are ever going to get.  They do the most procedures, they learned the most recently and they are yet to be cloaked by an air of invincibility.

And he’s not far off the mark.