They were not, it seems also, practised fraudsters: they did not apparently employ the common technique (in fraud) of properly recording data from an initial relatively small sample and then reproducing these data repeatedly with minor changes – which produces a large dataset with a degree of verisimilitude (unless, by chance, the initial sample happened to be atypical).
However, it must be recognized that in the Hong Kong setting, primary care medicine is also practised by community based specialists in the sense that these physicians may provide general outpatient care as well as specialist outpatient care.
If I am honest with myself, do I also detect a residue of unreconstructed masculinity, like crumbs in my pocket, that excuses all this by making me think that women, and certainly the woman I live with, are better at looking after small children, more practised, more suited to it?
As I say, I'm a practised enough drinker that I rarely experience this sort of stage fright.
Youngs, as well as attempting to put more heat on his outstanding opposite number Will Genia, is also a practised box-kicker, which may be a useful tactic assuming the Lions do not pick out Israel Folau.
Aboriginal societies in desert areas of Australia also traditionally practised circumcision and historians believe the procedure was originally an early public health measure to prevent balanitis, a swelling of the penis that can be caused by the accumulation of sand under the foreskin.
"I think ever since I've practised medicine I've noticed that we practise very defensive medicine; we are very scared of litigation," she says.
I have practised medicine for 21 years and have never had my full fee for a procedure reimbursed by a third party.
And when I'm practised at that, maybe I can lend a hand next door.
That didn't work too well the last time I saw that practised in a country.
