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When intensive care consultant Matt Morgan is wrestling with a clinical conundrum, he is quite likely to go looking for answers at the zoo rather than a medical library. In his job at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, he has discovered that many challenges in human emergency medicine were solved millions of years ago by members of the animal kingdom. His new book One Medicine – how understanding animals can save your life shows how much NHS staff can learn from studying comparative physiology, anatomy and behaviour.