(A)Torsion

6/21/2026

Why didn't James Herriott ever think of this when he was faced with a difficult bovine delivery? A group of Bosnian choristers are awaiting their turn to use one of the safe routes - an old mine - out of Sarajevo so they can get to a competition in Paris and defend the honour of their war-torn nation. They have to wait until the incoming group arrive, though, and in the intervening moments a farmer races up to them asking if anyone is a doctor. Nobody is, but one trained to be a vet - and he is exactly what is needed. A cow has a twisted uterus and unless someone helps urgently both cow and calf will die. He reluctantly agrees to help, but with shells dropping all around them the animal is hardly in the condition to settle, let alone to have him stick his hands into her nether regions. How