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Polished, tough-talking, she’s comfortable on her own in a world of male doctors; as she points out with brittle jocosity, most of the other women who attend medical conventions are sex workers.

Matt Orduña plays two gentlemen, included largely as plot devices, with amusingly clueless jocosity.

“For these readers, it appeared, all took my idle jocosities with complete seriousness. . . . Pretty soon,” Mencken later wrote, “I began to encounter my preposterous ‘facts’ in the writings of other men. . . .

Like most of the BBC's new breed, he is always on message, and avuncular to a fault, addicted to unnecessary jocosity – what we doctors call John Inverdale syndrome.

This ostentatious jocosity is not to his liking.