You send Mr. Scott off for an MRI scan (with yet more blankets and a hot water bottle - the man just can't seem to get warm). You are most pleased with yourself when you get the results back - a central cord haematoma - consistent with the central cord syndrome you found on examination.

You pack Mr. Scott off to the Spinal Unit where, you later learned, he regained full function and was discharged.

Back to that junior crossword I suppose then. Let's see - 4 down, 'White Continent' - 9 letters. Tricky.