Heard about the guy who got a call from his doctor, and got checked out immediately? No, of course you haven’t. That’s because some people are Olympic gold medallists at sticking their heads in the sand.
It seems that this ducking the inevitable stretches back at least to 1933 for one Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy), who in episode four of Peaky Blinders spent much of his time batting away urgent calls from his personal physician.
